On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Dina Hess wrote:
> How can I programmatically refresh application-scoped variables
> whenever there's a change?
DRK 3 contains the "init" tag, which is designed to be used in your
Application.cfm file like this:
<cf_init>
<cfset myVar = "myValue"/>
</cf_init>
The body of the init tag will only run the first time it is
encountered. All subsequent requests will not evaluate the body of the
tag, unless the URL variable "flushinit" is equal to "true". To
refresh your application variables, therefore, simply append
"flushinit=true" to any request.
Any init tag will only be evaluated once anywhere it is encountered in
your application, so you can specify a "name" attribute so that you can
use multiple init tags in a single application. Locking is
automatically handled in a way that protects your variables, but does
not synchronize your entire application.
I like using the init tag because I often do more to initialize an
application than just set some variables. I may run some database
queries or parse an XML file -- operations you would not want to
perform on every request.
Christian
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