Categories

Our documentation has been tagged by category to provide useful cross-referencing and a method for feature discovery. Use the A-Z index, below, to browse categories.

A
Ajax features All the CFML ajax/client side tags are considered deprecated in Lucee and are only provided for minimal backwards compatibility. They aren't extensible and there are far better modern, javascript alternatives available. Here are some (older) examples of how to replace these tags with javascript
Arrays
Application
B
C
Cache
Collections
Compatibility / Migration with other CFML engines Whilst Lucee is broadly compatible with Adobe ColdFusion, there are some differences.
Components (CFCs)
Core CFML Language The core elements of the CFML Language. CFML started as a tag based language and then introduced <cfscript>. So keep in mind, all these tags, i.e <cfif> can be also used in <cfscript>, which is similar to JavaScript. ```lucee // tag // cfscript if (redirect) location url=&quot;https://www.lucee.org&quot;; // or location(url=&quot;https://www
Cryptography
Currency features
D
Date and time [Datetime Timezone Handling in Lucee CFML](https://www.andrewdixon.co.uk/2019/05/25/datetime-timezone-handling-in-lucee-cfml/) [Video on Timezones in Lucee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIggbT8f3ls)
Debugging
Decision logic
G
Event Gateways See also the [https://github.com/lucee/task-event-gateway](https://github.com/lucee/task-event-gateway) extension
E
Encode/Decode Used to prevent XSS, these functions use the ESAPI (Enterprise Security API) library to safely handle user input.
Extensions Lucee Extensions add additional functionality, such as tags or functions, JDBC support or admin plugins
F
File handling Provides access to File System Resources, this includes virtual file systems like ram, s3, git, ftp and ssh
Formatting
H
I
J
L
M
N
O
Objects
ORM Object-relational mapping
P
Q
R
Regex Regular Expression support in Lucee
S
Scopes
Search The Lucee Search support via the Lucene extension is no longer maintained and is not recommended for new projects.
Server
Session
Sorting
Static
Strings
Structures
S3 Provides access to S3 resources
T
Threads - [Easy Parallelism in Lucee](https://www.rasia.io/blog/easy-parallelism-in-lucee.html) - [Safe Concurrency with Lucee](https://www.rasia.io/blog/safe-concurrency-with-lucee.html)
V
W
WDDX
Web services Lucee uses the Axis 1 engine, ACF use the Axis 2 engine, so result may differ These functions are provided for backward compatibility and there are no plans from the Lucee team to update the engine as it's a lot of work for a legacy technology
X
XML
Z