Translating PHP Script to Coldfusion

Question

Hello,
I need to translate this code (which is in PHP) to coldfusion, is there anyone who can help me please it´s urgent, thanks a lot.
<?
$ref = $_GET['Reference'];
$act = $_GET['Action'];
$par = $_GET['Param'];
switch ($act) {
case "DETAIL":
echo "Reference=".$ref. "&Action=".$act."&Reponse=".$montant;
break;
case "ERREUR":
echo "Reference=".$ref. "Action=".$act. "Reponse=OK";
break;
case "ACCORD":
echo "Reference=".$ref. "Action=".$act. "Reponse=OK";
break;
case "REFUS":
echo "Reference=".$ref. "Action=".$act. "Reponse=OK";
break;
case "ANNULATION":
echo "Reference=".$ref. "Action=".$act. "Reponse=OK";
break;
?>  

Answer 1

When you're approaching the task of "translating PHP to ColdFusion," and when you find yourself with just-a-moment where you are not "up to your earlobes in alligators" (i.e. when you can recall that "your original objective was to drain the moat ..."), then do try to step back and look at the forest not just the trees.  ColdFusion actually has a rather different philosophy toward designing applications, which can be summed up (I think) like this:
Most web-tools (PHP, dot-Net, even Ruby and Perl) give you the ability to "write a program" that just happens to produce an HTML output.
Content-management (CMS) systems are "really-nifty programs that have already been written for you."
ColdFusion is an application-server system that uses an XML-based declarative syntax.  It is implemented on the back-end using a "just in time" compiler that cranks out the (Java and JavaScript) code for you.  Although many of the "tags" implement conventional procedural-programming constructs such as "switch" and "if" and "loop" and "call," you'll notice that many more do not.
A good example of the difference between them, for me, is the <cftransaction> tag.  This tag declares to ColdFusion that the enclosed block is supposed to "be a database transaction."  This means, without you having to say anything further, that:
A database transaction should be started.
If all of the code within this block completes successfully, the database transaction should be committed.
If an exception occurs within this block, the database transaction should be rolled-back (in addition to anything else that should happen as a consequence of an exception having occurred).
The ColdFusion Engine parses that declarative tag and automagically generates the necessary Java code to implement it correctly, on-the-fly, then executes that code immediately.  You don't have to be consciously aware that this is happening, even though as an application designer you can.
This strategy is especially useful when an application needs to be "scaled up" to run on multiple servers.  When ColdFusion is configured for that environment, the code that it on-the-fly generates is a little bit different.  But the page that you wrote, isn't.