> Here's something that confuses me about Application.cfc. I > recently decided to put a bunch of initial stuff in an .ini > file. But when I tried to read that (using GetProfileString) > from within OnApplicationStart(), it ignored it completely. I > tried everything I could think of, moved the code into > onRequest, changed the ini layout so that it was bad (it > never threw an error). Finally, I gave up and used an XML > file, which worked fine. But was this something I did wrong > or is there some odd bug in the processing of Application.cfc?
It's almost certainly an error in your GetProfileString code, since this exact technique is used in the official Adobe Advanced ColdFusion 7 courseware. Are you using a fully-qualified file path? Is your ini file "well-formed" with section headers? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
