A Brief History of Fusebox

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A Brief History of Fusebox

• Needed way for others to inherit my applications
• Created architecture that would be understood and
  maintainable

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A Brief History of Fusebox

• Moved into building with Steve Nelson
• Discussion on cf-talk about creating a modular
  architecture
• Fusebox.org went online

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Benefits of using Fusebox

• Have a developed architecture
• Flexible enough to modify to your needs
• Becoming widespread that new team members may not
  have to learn from scratch
• Created by developers (this means you!)

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Using Fusebox for eCommerce
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Using Fusebox for eCommerce

• Analyze and design
• Implement structure
• Expand and maintain

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Analyze and Design

• More Design Less Time Less Money
• Most time and money spent fixing flaws missed
  during design
• Fusebox encourages design up front

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Determine the players and props (objects)
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Determine the actions of the objects
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Determine the attributes required by the objects
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Can represent objects with UML
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Implementing the Structure

• Creation of each object
• Joining the objects within the site
• Calling individual objects

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Creating an object

• From our object model
• Shopping cart
• Attributes.Fuseaction
• View Cart
• Add Item
• Remove Item
• Clear cart

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Creating an object

• To the objects file (/shoppingcart/index.cfm)
• ltcfparam name"attributes.fuseaction"
  default"attributes.fuseaction"gt
• ltcfswitch expression"attributes.fuseaction"gt
• ltcfcase value"ViewCart"gt lt/cfcasegt
• ltcfcase value"addItem"gt lt/cfcasegt
• ltcfcase value"RemoveItem"gt lt/cfcasegt
• ltcfcase value"UpdateCart"gt lt/cfcasegt
• ltcfcase value"ClearCart"gt lt/cfcasegt
• lt/cfswitchgt

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Creating an object

• Then adding the fuses or modules
• ltcfparam name"attributes.fuseaction"
  default"attributes.fuseaction"gt
• ltcfswitch expression"attributes.fuseaction"gt
• ltcfcase value"ViewCart"gt
• ltcfinclude template"dsp_Cart.cfm"gt
• lt/cfcasegt
• ltcfcase value"addItem"gt
• ltcfinclude template"act_addItem.cfm"gt
• ltcflocation url "index.cfm?Fuseactionviewcart"
  gt
• lt/cfcasegt
• ltcfcase value"RemoveItem"gt
• ltcfif BasketItems.recordCountgt
• ltcfmodule template"act_removeItem.cfm"
  ItemID"attributes.ItemID"gt
• lt/cfifgt
• ltcflocation url "index.cfm?Fuseactionviewcart"
  gt
• lt/cfcasegt

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Creating an object

• Or a much simpler version
• /info/index.cfm
• ltcfinclude template"app_locals.cfm"gt
• ltcfinclude
• template"dsp_attributes.fuseaction.cfm"gt

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Containership of objects
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Containership of objects

• /products/index.cfm
• app_locals.cfm
• /app_globals.cfm
• qry_search.cfm
• dsp_search_results.cfm
• dsp_product_display.cfm
• qry_product_details.cfm

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Tying the objects together
eBags
Shopping cart
Products
Customers
Orders
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Tying the objects together
Each objects app_locals includes the sites
app_globals
eBags
App_Globals
Shopping cart
Products
App_locals
App_locals
Customers
Orders
App_locals
App_locals
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Tying the objects together
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Calling the objects

• URL Sports Bags /search/index.cfm?fuseactions
  earchCategoryID4
• ltcflocation url/orders/index.cfm?fuseactionshow
  Confirmationgt
• ltcfinclude template"/shoppingcart/act_check_for_B
  asket.cfm"gt
• ltcfmodule template/shoppingcart/act_check_for_Ba
  sket.cfm"gt

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Quotes from Users

• "Fusebox allows our developers to leverage the
  strengths of standard techniques and practices to
  deliver a better product along a faster
  timeline. -Joshua Cyr
• "We are integrating Fusebox into all of our
  projects large and small. By building in
  "modularity" to the code structures and programs
  from the beginning, we have been able to speed
  our development times and create better and
  better systems that are very easy to revise and
  modify, even for rookie CFers. -Truman Esmond
• "As a team of developers, with different styles,
  fusebox allowed us to follow a common path,
  increasing the coordination of projects, while
  decreasing time spent understanding each others
  code. -Micheal Morris - Automated Graphic
  Systems, Inc.

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Fusebox resources

• the site - http//www.fusebox.org
• Mailing list - fusebox_at_houseoffusion.com
• Forums - http//www.fuseware.com/support/Forums/In
  dex.cfm?cfapp2