No-one else has answered so for what it's worth here's what I've heard: Session variables don't work well in a server farm as they are specific to the given server. So if you have some kind of load balancing going on whereby clients are served pages from different servers depending on how busy each one is, that will be negated as the session will tie each client to one server. Even if this isn't an issue at the moment, how scalable do you want your site to be? Mark -----Original Message----- From: Nick Slay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Session Variable vs Application.cfm Opinions This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B7EB5F3727E53FF272E76A94 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am currently making some enhancements to our latest project, www.yourorganiser.com.au, and I've run into a question I thought I'd throw out to the list... Once a user logs on, I store some of their preferences as session variables. We also support affiliates, which can load different images and frame pages depending on where they come from, I am also storing the paths to the images as session.variables. How 'safe' are session variables? I started to wonder whether it would be any better/worse if I added code to the application.cfm file to read the preferences/affiliate settings so they are available as local variables on each page. I realise there will be database read overheads... I was simply curious to hear if anyone had any problems relying on session variables at all. Thanks Nick --------------B7EB5F3727E53FF272E76A94 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="nickslay.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Nick Slay Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="nickslay.vcf" begin:vcard n:Slay;Nick tel;cell:0414 810284 tel;home:02 4381 0284 tel;work:02 4381 0284 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.webbods.com.au org:Webbods Pty Ltd adr:;;PO Box 4054;Copacabana;NSW;2251;Australia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Director x-mozilla-cpt:;3 fn:Nick Slay end:vcard --------------B7EB5F3727E53FF272E76A94-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
