Thanks for your input Justin. However, I already have a bunch of heavy-duty CFCs running in the application scope. I was thinking that I did not want to increase that load. I also don't know how much is enough in the application scope. I should probably just get something like SeeFusion and go do a bunch of tests. Ah well!
George On 4/13/07, Justin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a bit late on this thread, but if you're reading in site settings on > every page request it would make more sense to put them into the > application scope instead of the session scope. If you have multiple > "sites" running on the same application you could use a structure to > store the data that is read in on the first request (or on application > start if using application.cfc) keyed based on the site id. Once read > once you won't have to process that data on every request and it will be > stored in memory once instead of a new copy for each visitor. > > > -Justin Scott | GravityFree > Client Care Special Forces Unit > > 1960 Stickney Point Road, Suite 210 > Sarasota | FL | 34231 | 800.207.4431 > 941.927.7674 x115 | f 941.923.5429 > www.GravityFree.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: George Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:18 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: reading params from a file v/s getting them from a file > > > > Hmm, maybe I can learn some stuff here about session > > variables. Well, the > > parameters (and their values) themselves are sizeable in > > nature. Sort of > > like "defaultTextForMessage='some text 150 characters long'" > > and so on. Is > > storing them in the session advisable? > > > > Thanks, > > George > > > > > > On 4/12/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 12 Apr 2007, George Abraham wrote: > > > > Yes it is read at every request. For example, the > > navigational menu for > > > > every site is different, so the params XML file will have > > to be read > > > every > > > > request to see what the menu items are. The only thing I > > store in a > > > session > > > > variables is an ID identifying the site. > > > > > > Right. Why can't you store the parsed parameters in the > > session too ? > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Tom Chiverton > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275286 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

