Last Updated: 12/07/2011 10:51:00 AM
How to use showerror with cfabort in CFScript
with CFabort you display a custom error message when the page aborts this way:
<cfabort showerror="My Fail Whale message">
But how do you do it in cfscript? You may think to use showerror="" but you would be wrong. You would get this:

Instead you should use this:
<cfscript>
abort "My Fail whale message"
</cfscript>
Will give you the expected result:

The reason for this is that showerror is the only attribute that cfabort takes so this method of taking showerror without naming it specifically cuts down on typing and verbosity.