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cfobject: component object

Creates an instance of a ColdFusion component (CFC) object.

<cfobject 
   name = "variable name"
   component = "component name">

cfcollection, cfcomponent, cfexecute, cfindex, cfreport, cfsearch, cfwddx

Attribute	Req/Opt	Default	Description
name	Required		String; name for the instantiated component. The name must not have a period as the first or last character.
component	Required		Name of component to instantiate

When the cfobject tag creates an instance of the CFC, ColdFusion executes any constructor code in the CFC; that is, it runs code that is not in the method definitions.

On UNIX systems, ColdFusion searches first for a file with a name that matches the specified component name, but is all lower case. If it does not find the file, it looks for a file name that matches the component name exactly, with the identical character casing.

<!--- separate instantiation and method invocation; permits multiple 
invocations --->
<cfobject 
name="quoteService" 
component="nasdaq.quote">
<cfinvoke 
component="#quoteService#" 
method="getLastTradePrice" 
symbol="macr" 
returnVariable="res">
<cfoutput>#res#</cfoutput><br>

<cfinvoke 
component="#quoteService#" 
method="getLastTradePrice" 
symbol="mot" 
returnVariable="res">
<cfoutput>#res#</cfoutput>


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