Cold Fusion has built in session management, which you can utilize without any database interaction. I would recommend digging into the documentation at LiveDocs and reading up on it.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/ Then do a search for "session management" or the like. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Sorge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 2:43 PM Subject: Best practice to time out application > Hey, > Can anyone tell me what the best way is to time out an application? I have > some sites that I want to be able to log the user out after X minutes of > inactivity. I recall seeing at a job I worked in in Texas where every time > the user clicked on something on the site, it updated the database with > the > current time. That seems like a LOT of trips to the database. What are > some > of you doing? > > Thanks, > > -- > Bruce Sorge > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264666 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
