Exactly. Take a list: alpha,beta,raymond,gamma
You want to see if ray is in the list. If you use listContains(list,"ray") it will return 3 since ray is in raymond. What you really want is listFind (or listFindNoCase). A blog entry on this: http://www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=23 ======================================================================== === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:56 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list? > > > ahhh listContains doesn't mean "whole" word, it like a match > anywhere in the string will match? > > tony weeg > uncertified advanced cold fusion developer > tony at navtrak dot net > www.navtrak.net > office 410.548.2337 > fax 410.860.2337 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:55 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list? > > > Folks, please do not remember that listContains is NOT the > function you wanto use 99% of the time. Imagine your security > system only wants a person who has a role of "admin". If you > do listContains and I have > > "foolishadmin,gorf" > > listContains will return 1 because it will match _inside_ item one. > > listFind or listFindNoCase is the function you want. > > Now, that being said, I'm sure there are times when you do > want to use listContains. I'm not saying it never has a user, > but 99% of the time when I see someone use it, it's being > used incorrectly. > > ============================================================== > ========== > === > Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc > (www.mindseye.com) > Member of Team Macromedia > (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog > Yahoo IM : morpheus > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:43 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list? > > > > > > how about a listContains in there :) > > > > <cfif listContains(roleList,'admin')> > > --admin stuff > > </cfif> > > <cfif listContains(roleList,'creative')> > > --creative stuff > > </cfif> > > > > > > tony weeg > > uncertified advanced cold fusion developer > > tony at navtrak dot net > > www.navtrak.net > > office 410.548.2337 > > fax 410.860.2337 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:37 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list? > > > > > > I had always thought, that if I put a column in my table > > for users' "roles" that it could be a list, and > > IsUserInRole() would return a true or false if the user's > > role was contained in the role assigned in the cfloginuser > > tag. > > > > In other words, I had always thought you could have a role > column in a > > table with values like, "creative, admin" and both of the following > > would return true for the same > > person: > > IsUserInROle("creative") > > IsUserInRole("admin") > > > > However, I can have two roles for myself, and create two > little areas > > one wrapped in an "admin" role, and another wrapped in a > "programmer" > > role, and I don't see the second one. > > > > In my table, it's stored as "admin, creative". > > On the page it's just two areas wrapped by the following: <cfif > > IsUserInRole("admin")> --admin stuff > > </cfif> > > <cfif IsUserInRole("creative")> > > --creative stuff > > </cfif> > > > > But I don't see the second one. I've logged out and logged back in, > > cleared cookies, etc. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
