As a side note, don't use StructClear(Session) to clear the session structure because it can lead to some subtle problems. This is specifically mentioned in the CF manual. There are safer methods that you should be able to find and copy/paste without too much trouble.
-Mike Chabot On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:51 AM, John Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I think that i am having an issue with onRequestStart in my > Application.cfc. I am trying to write a login app, which I think that should > work fine, but I can't get past the checkLogin page. I might be wrong but I > think that it is due to the onRequestStart function. Any help would be great. > > Since I clear the session in 1 minute, I don't think that this is the reason, > and for the logout page, I was thinking that I can clear everything with: > <<!--- logout.cfm---> > <cfset StructClear(Session)> > <!--- redirect the user to the home page---> > > The database is set up correct, and I get no errors. I feel lost on this, as > I can't get passed the form to login to the welcome page. I still need to > make the form friendly with errors message if the login fails, but I want to > get it working first! > > > thanks so much for any help, > Johnny > > here is the code > > <!--- Aplication.cfc---> > <cfcomponent displayname="Application" output="true" hint="Handle the > application."> > > <cfset this.Name = "login" /> > > <cfset this.SessionTimeout= CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 1, 0) /> > <cfset thIs.ApplicationTimeout = CreateTimeSpan( 0, 0, 1, 0 ) /> > > <cfset this.SessionManagement = "yes" /> > <cfset this.clientmanagement="yes" /> > <cfset this.SetClientCookies = "no" /> > > <cffunction name="onApplicationStart" output="no" returntype="void"> > <cfset REQUEST.dataSource ="my_DSN"> > > </cffunction> > > <cffunction name="onRequestStart" output="no" returntype="void"> > <!---if the user is not login in, force them to log in---> > <cfif not isDefined ("SESSION.auth.isLoggedIn")> > <!---if the user is submitting the "login" form---> > <!---include the "Login Check" to validate the user---> > <cfif isDefined("FORM.userLogin")> > <cfinclude template="loginCheck.cfm"> > </cfif> > <cfinclude template="loginForm.cfm"> > <cfabort> > </cfif> > </cffunction> > </cfcomponent> > > <!--- index.cfm---> > <cfquery name="getUser" datasource="myDSN"> > SELECT user_id, userName, userPassword > FROM users > </cfquery> > > <cfoutput query="getUser"> > Welcome #getUser.userName# > </cfoutput> > > <!---loginForm.cfm---> > <!--- > Filename - loginForm.cfc > Created by - John Barrett ([email protected]) > Reason - the main loginForm for the application(included in the main > Application file) > ---> > > > <!---if the user is submitting the "login" form---> > <!---include the "Login Check" to validate the user---> > <cfif isDefined("FORM.userLogin")> > <cfinclude template="loginCheck.cfm"> > </cfif> > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > <title>Please login</title> > </head> > > <body> > <!---start the login form---> > <cfform action="loginCheck.cfm" name="loginForm" method="post"> > > <cfinput type="hidden" name="userName_required" /> > <cfinput type="hidden" name="userPassword_required" /> > > > <table border="0"> > <tr> > <td>username</td> > <td> > > <cfinput > type="text" > name="userName" > message="Please type you username first!" > required="yes" id="userName" > value="" > size="20" > maxlength="100" > > > </td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td>password</td> > <td> > > <cfinput > type="password" > name="userPassword" > size="12" > value="" > maxlength="100" > required="yes" > message="Please type you password first!" > > > </td> > <tr> > <td> > > <cfinput type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" > value="Submit"> > </td> > </tr> > </tr> > </table> > </cfform> > > > </body> > </html> > > > <!---LoginCheck.cfm---> > <cfquery name="getUser" datasource="my_DSN"> > SELECT user_id, userName, userPassword > FROM users > WHERE userName= '#FORM.userName#' > AND userPassword= '#FORM.userPassword#' > </cfquery> > > <!--- if the user name and password are correct---> > <cfif getUser.recordcount eq 1> > <!--- remember user's logged in status ---> > <!--- write user_id & userName in stucture---> > <cfset SESSION.auth = structNew()> > <cfset SESSION.auth.isLoggedIn = "yes"> > <cfset SESSION.user_id = getUser.user_id> > <cfset SESSION.userName = getUser.userName> > > <!--- Now that the user is loggin, wend them to the i ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/message.cfm/messageid:5034 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/unsubscribe.cfm
