I hear you, Will. Now don't overload my rowboat with motorboat power! :o)
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 10:44 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: MG is so cool! > > Been playing more with my first model glue app and I realize how awesome it > is, just from tinkering. > > I built a reqUsername method that simply set a randRang() and tacked it onto > an email username, just for > the fun of it. I hard-coded those values in the randRange(). > > Then I thought hm, that's pretty dumb. Why not hard-code them into the event > handler and pass them to > the controller via some arguments. Worked fine! > > Then thought, hm, this is still pretty dumb. Why not stick those values in my > AppConfig in > coldspring.xml? Worked like a charm. Now, it's totally dynamic and lets you > set the values in your > config. > > Just messin around like this is a great way to learn these frameworks. > (AHEMMM RICK!) :) > > Here's some example code. Maybe it'll help folks just starting with MG. > > Coldspring.xml: > > <bean id="AppConfiguration" class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig"> > <property name="Config"> > <map> > <entry key="DSN"><value>leroy</value></entry> > <entry key="userStartNum"><value>1000</value></entry> > <entry key="userEndNum"><value>2000</value></entry> > </map> > </property> > </bean> > > Login.cfc: > > <cffunction name="reqUsername" access="public" returnType="string" > output="false"> > <cfargument name="email" type="any" /> > > <cfscript> > var startNum = variables.config.getConfigSetting("userStartNum"); > var endNum = variables.config.getConfigSetting("userEndNum"); > var result = ""; > result = listFirst(arguments.email, "@") & randRange(startNum, endNum); > </cfscript> > > <cfreturn result /> > </cffunction> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307958 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
