I'm trying to put together a footer in ColdFusion using a component. I want to be able to re-use the footer throughout my application, but only have to write the footer HTML once.
Here's what I have so far, but I'm unable to output the content.
<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="getFooter" access="public" returntype="string" output="yes">
<footer>
<div class="row text-center">
<div class="col-sm-12">
Copyright © 2020 Company Name | <a href="#" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#msgPrivacy"> Security and Privacy </a>
</div>
</div>
</footer>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
<cfoutput>
#getFooter#
</cfoutput>
I created a cffidle here.
Footer.cfc
<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="getFooter" access="public" returntype="string" output="no" >
<!--- chr(169) is the copyright symbol --->
<cfset var footer=
'<footer>
<div class="row text-center">
<div class="col-sm-12">
Copyright #chr(169)# 2020 Company Name | <a href="##" data-toggle="modal" data-target="##msgPrivacy"> Security and Privacy </a>
</div>
</div>
</footer>'>
<cfreturn footer>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
testPage.cfm
<!---<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8">---> <!---Optional, as UTF-8 encoding is usually the default --->
<cfset footerObject=new Footer()>
<cfset footer=footerObject.getFooter()>
<cfoutput>#footer#</cfoutput>