Pete, including is one way, but it's messy. Check into the application proxy pattern. It works like this
/Application.cfc -> extends com.ApplicationProxy, otherwise empty /com/ApplicationProxy.cfc -> contains your real application's methods /virtual/Application.cfc -> extends com.ApplicationProxy, usually otherwise empty The (file & folder) names are made up, but the problems are real. It works pretty well, and is made for just this type of situation. nathan strutz [Blog and Family @ http://www.dopefly.com/] [AZCFUG Manager @ http://www.azcfug.org/] On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Pete Ruckelshaus <pruckelsh...@gmail.com>wrote: > > CF8 on Win2K3. > > I have some core software written in CF8 that I use for web site basics -- > content management, security, etc. The directory for this software is set > up in IIS as the web root -- let's say this path for this is > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\core. If the customer requires any custom > functionality, I put that code, along with any other site-specific code > such > as layout templates, stylesheets, etc. in a separate directory that is then > mapped as a virtual directory in IIS to "/site" -- let's call this > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\sites\site_name > > The problem that I'm having is that I'm using an application.cfc file in > the > web root (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\core\application.cfc); all of the core > site > functionality that is under this path works 100% correctly. However, the > CF > files in the /site virtual directory (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\sites\site_name) > are not finding the application.cfc file in the web root. > > This is pretty much a show-stopper for me, and I need a way to resolve this > -- many of the files in /site need access to the variables that I'm setting > in the application.cfc file. The site is hosted on a shared server, so I > don't have access to the CF administrator. Other than putting a copy of > the > application.cfc file in the /site root (which I don't want to do, since I > don't want to duplicate code), is there a solution for this problem? Can I > create a shell application.cfc file and call each of the methods from the > root application.cfc file? How would I do this in a way that wouldn't > cause > issues? > > Thanks, > > Pete > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:320073 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
