Diff.cfc - A ColdFusion text diff component

Posted At : November 3, 2005 4:52 PM

A couple of weeks ago I was playing with Sean Corfield's MachWiki. It was really cool to go through the code (I always enjoy Sean's code).

I eventually decided to use MediaWiki for my company's standards wiki. I had to dig back, way back, for my php skills and managed to get it up and running with mods and all.

Of course I really wanted to rewrite the thing in ColdFusion, so I started from what seemed like an interesting part - the diff tool.

<cfobject component="diff" name="cfcDiff">
<cfoutput>#cfcDiff.diffFormat(form.txt1,form.txt2)#</cfoutput>

#	line	#	line
1	<html>	1	<html>
2	<head><title>Text 2 </title></head>	2	<head><title>Text 1 </title></head>
3	<body>	3	<body>
4	Hello, my name is Shlomy Gantz, how are you doing?	4	Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya ,You killed my father.
5	<font color="#FF0000"> This text is in red </font>	5	<font color="#00FF00"> This text is in green </font>
6	I have more lines	.
7	I have more lines	.
8	</body>	6	</body>
9	</html>	7	</html>