FAQ
The FAQ's are a work in progress... Some of these may be not found, incomplete or out of date...
- What is LightFront?
- What are LightFront's features?
- How is LightFront different than other MVC frameworks?
- What are "Flexible Conventions"? Why do I care?
- How do I install LightFront?
- What do I need to configure in LightFront? Where? How?
- Some frameworks require you to know a lot of extras to use them. What functions or commands do I need to learn for LightFront?
- How do I setup my LightFront controllers?
- How do I define my actions?
- What is callAction()?
- How do I call views directly as events?
- What is displayView()?
- What is relocate? Is that like <cflocation>?
- What about LightFront and ColdSpring or Lightwire?
- What about LightFront and ORM, like Reactor, Transfer, DataMgr, DataFaucet and ColdFusion 9's Hibernate functionality?
- How do you call the model from LightFront?
- I see that LightFront can support switch controllers, like Fusebox 2 & 3 had. Does this mean that LightFront is 100% Fusebox 3 compatible?
- Are views an example of conventions?
- I don't like all of my pages going through index.cfm or whatever I've called the default cfm page. Can I still use LightFront?
- What about calling LightFront events from a view page, either in or out of the framework?
- Can LightFront handle search engine safe (SES) URL's?
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- Browse the LightFront repository
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