If you are running MX, delete all the old class files, forcing CF to "recompile" the files.
-----Original Message----- From: Laura Schlee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 9:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Rogue application.cfm file I have what seems to me to be a problem with changes made by an old application.cfm file. I'm adding some pages to an existing application but I'm currently doing all my development offsite with a temporary database. This weekend was the first time I took home some of the previously existing files to look at the code. One of the files was an application.cfm file which I stupidly put in the same directory as my new files. I did not have my own application.cfm file at the time but I do now, and the old application.cfm file has been renamed. I have a form which is supposed to post to itself so it can show the entered data, and any error messages about corrections needed, to the user before the entered data gets put into the database. I was doing all the entry, posting and submitting through one page. This was working before the old application.cfm got onto my system. These are the bad things that happened afterwards: No error messages displayed if an empty form is submitted; the process skipped right through the error message process, entered empty fields into the database and displayed the success message. If data was then entered into the fields and the form was submitted again, nothing happened; the browser reloaded the form and displayed the entered data again, but did not put entries into the database. I decided to split the process into two parts and use sessions, so that the database could not get automatically updated just by loading the action/validation page. This prevented a blank field update from occurring automatically, but the new form is still not displaying the error messages when blank fields are submitted. Right now the temporary database has four fields, but only the first field is being updated properly no matter how many fields have been filled in. The rest of the fields have blank space entered into them, according to the SQL debugging statement displayed on the browser. Here are the things I have tried to get rid of any session/application/client variables that may have been set by the old application.cfm file: Close the browser, shut down the server, turn client and application management off at the server and in code, delete cookies in the browser, turn cookies off in the browser, have cookies reset when the browser is closed, structDelete the sessions, a new application.cfm file, StructClear(session) and StructClear(application). All of this has been repeated several times. Perhaps I am wrong and the old application.cfm file is not responsible, but it did have a lot of cfparam lines. I have been careful not to have any variables that match anything in the old cfparam lines. Also, when I start the server and run a cf file for the first time, it takes forever to run my application.cfm file and momentarily flashes a dnserror.htm line at the bottom of the browser, which makes me suspect that something in the browser or server is still looking for the old application.cfm file. And when JRUN first starts, there is a line about the recovery of several sessions, although I have done everything I can think of to kill my sessions at the end of the processes. I happen to know that someone else who is developing offsite has run into the "database not being updated" problem as well, which is one of the reasons I'm suspecting the old application.cfm file is the culprit. Can anyone help me figure this out? Everything was fine before the old files got added to my system, but I will be happy to post my old or new code if that will help. Thanks. ================================================== Laura Schlee DML Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 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
