If you missed the part 1 of this tutorial, you may get it here.
Now that we have set up the main Fusebox structure for our application, let’s continue to implement it.

Layouts

Figure 2.1

I want you to pay particular attention to the circuit “layout”. That circuit will not be called by any page, it is an internal circuit, basically a “view” circuit which will assemble all the contents of the page into the layout templates we choose.

Now that we have our “Hello World” page working, let’s play a little with layouts. Suppose you want to have a header, content and footer as your layout (Figure 2.1). First you will have to create the contents for the header, main content and footer blocks and then insert them into the layout template. Let’s see how it is done.
On the fusebox.xml.cfm template there is a tag <globalfuseactions>, followed by two tags <preprocess> and <postprocess>. Every action that you include between those tags will be processed either before or after Fusebox assembles the page.

We will set the header, footer and the layout actions into the <postprocess> tag, because they will be shown at the end of all Fusebox processing.

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Unfortunately something happened to my old tutorial when I switched Internet provider and the posts were messed up, I got some complains, so I’m re-posting them here.
This is Part 1:

I work with Fusebox framework since its version 2. Now we are at version 5.51. I decided to write this tutorial to help some friends who haven’t got into Fusebox yet but are anxious to jump into the bandwagon, just don’t know how to start. I recommend Jeff Peter’s books on Fusebox for those who really want to take advantage of this framework:

• Fusebox 5 & Flip Master-Class ColdFusion Applications
• How to Drive Fusebox 5.5

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