this application shows you how to declare variables and display variables. the end result of this code is showing you the total price after tax. this is mainly for beginners.
Simple starter cf45 application
<cfset nTax = .05 />
<cfset nPrice = 5.95 />
<cfset nTotal = nTax * nPrice + nPrice />
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Variables</title>
</head>
<body>
<cfoutput>Price: #nPrice#</cfoutput><br>
<cfoutput>Tax: #nTax#</cfoutput><br>
<cfoutput>Total: #nTotal#</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>
jsmall26 0 Light Poster
Wouldn't you want to say
<cfparam name="nTax" default=".05"><cfparam name="nPrice" default="5.95">instead? Also, I'd wrap the <cfoutput> tags only around the variables
Price: <cfoutput>#dollarformat(nPrice)#</cfoutput>(also put the dollar numbers in dollar format on all of them. :)
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