How to do a cfdump inside a cfscript tag?

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Arnkrishn picture Arnkrishn · May 19, 2009 · Viewed 30.3k times · Source

In order to debug I would like to dump certain variables on to my web page. How can I do that from inside a cfscript tag?

I tried the following but it isn't working:

<cfscript>
  ...
  <cfif cgi.REMOTE_ADDR eq "IP">
    <cfdump var="#var1#"><br/>
  </cfif>
  ...
</cfscript>

Any clues on what can be done?

Answer

ale picture ale · May 19, 2009

You can't do it directly like that in versions before CF 9. You can, however, use the dump() UDF found at CFLib. There's a whole library of UDFs there that mimic CF tags that don't have direct CFSCRIPT equivalents.

ColdFusion 9 (and up) offers the writeDump() function.

Adobe Documentation Linkfor WriteDump() function

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