What I've been thinking about

I've been thinking a lot lately about Blue River Interactive's Mura Content Managent System (hence forth referred to as Mura CMS or just Mura), probably because I have been working a lot with it lately. I am in the process of converting a large, mostly static, web site to Mura, and I have been amazed by its power, versatility and ease-of-use. I have been especially pleased with how easy it is for me to make plugins for it.

While thinking about Mura, I have realized something important. Mura CMS is an incredible products with the potential to change the way that ColdFusion and CFML are viewed. And this needs to be recognized. It also has the potential to become a very popular, open source product used outside of the ColdFusion/CFML community.

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I have been learning a lot about Mura the last couple of weeks while building my first Mura plugin, but I have also had a lot of frustration because some things work differently when you are developing for a front-end page vs. a back-end (admin) page.

In the Mura Developer Documentation it states:

The Event scope simply wraps the current request's event object which contains merged data from both the CFML FORM and URL scopes.

If then goes on to say that the following code should return values from those scopes.

So if I have a URL variable like ?test=123, then this code should return the value '123':

This seems to work fine on pages I create for Mura display objects for the front end of the website, but for pages in the admin area of the site, this method only produces [empty string].

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