Coldfusion 8 -> 9 update, functions no longer working

Question

HELP!!

Just migrating a site from one server to another, the coldfusion version is changing from cf8 to cf9 [linux/centos]

this code used to work before:

cfinclude('../SQL/contact.sql.cfc');
form.phone = unFormatPhone(form.phone);
contactID = InsertContact(form);

In the included file is:

<cfcomponent output="false" >
<!--- -------------------------------- insert -------------------------------- --->
<cffunction name="InsertContact" returntype="numeric" output="false" access="public" >

now I get an error when browsing the pages:

Variable INSERTCONTACT is undefined.


The error occurred in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxx.com/httpdocs/Assets/XHTML/buy-my-car.cfm: line 54
Called from /var/www/vhosts/newride.ca/httpdocs/Application.cfc: line 232
Called from /var/www/vhosts/newride.ca/httpdocs/Application.cfc: line 230
Called from /var/www/vhosts/newride.ca/httpdocs/Application.cfc: line 162
52 :            cfinclude('../SQL/contact.sql.cfc');
53 :            form.phone = unFormatPhone(form.phone);
54 :            contactID = InsertContact(form);
55 :            
56 :            //insert vehicle with app id

What is going on here? the included file is being found, is there some difference between the two versions that is causing this?

Answer 1

Are you sure its being included? try:

include "../SQL/contact.sql.cfc";
form.phone = unFormatPhone(form.phone);
contactID = InsertContact(form);

Answer 2

Well, I'll say first off that I've only worked with CF9, so I can't comment on what you used to be able to do in CF8. But, in CF9 I'm pretty sure you cant use a CFC that way. The closest thing to what you're doing would be transient invocation using <cfinvoke>. See here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7db3.html

But, also look at instantiating the cfc as an object and then calling methods on that object. I like doing it that way as it reminds me of other languages such as Java and C#.