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Developing applications

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DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS

Developing CFML Applications

Using timing

Use this tag to determine how long it takes for a block of code to execute. This is useful when ColdFusion debugging

output indicates excessive execution time, but does not pinpoint the long-running block of code.

To use this tag, enable debugging in the ColdFusion Administrator Debugging Settings page. In the Debugging

Settings page, you must also specifically enable usage of the

If you enable debugging for the

generate timing information without disturbing production users.

Calling the cftimer tag

You can control where the

• Inline: Displays timing information following the

• Outline: Displays timing information at the beginning of the timed code and draws a box around the timed code.

(This requires browser support for the HTML FIELDSET attribute.)

• Comment: Displays timing information in an HTML comment in the format <!--label

default label is

• Debug: Displays timing information in the debugging output under the heading CFTimer Times.

The following example calls the

<h1>CFTIMER test</h1>

from Employees

<cfoutput>#lastname#, #firstname#</cfoutput><br>

from CourseList

<td>#Course_ID#</td>

<td>#CorName#</td>

<td>#CorLevel#</td>

tag only and display timing information in an HTML comment, you can

tag displays timing information, as follows:

tag multiple times, each time using a different

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tag by checking the Timer Information check box.

elapsed-timems >--. The