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cfabort

Description

Stops processing of a page at the tag location. Railo returns everything that was processed before the cfabort tag. The cfabort tag is often used with conditional logic to stop processing a page when a condition occurs.

Category

Other

Implemented

Usage Syntax

<cfabort  
	[showError="String"]
	[type="String"]
 />

[] = Optional attribute

Attributes

Name Type Required Default Description
showError String No The error to display when cfabort executes. The error message displays in the standard CFML error page.
type String No Define if only current page execution will aborted or the whole request. Values are "page" for the current page or "request" for all.

Example Usage

Example 1:

<cfset variables.foo = "2">
<cfoutput>#variables.foo#</cfoutput>
<cfabort>
<---  This will never run as we have halted processing --->
<cfset variables.foo = incrementValue(variables.foo)>
<cfoutput>#variables.foo#</cfoutput>

Example 2:

<cfset variables.foo = "2">
<cfset variables.msg = "This is an custom error that I can write. This will display as a message to the user and all processing is halted.">
<cfabort showError="#variables.msg#">
<cfoutput>#variables.foo#</cfoutput>