now he maybe instantiating CFCs all over the place in his code, eh? Where does he get this DSN value for each of these calls?
Doug On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:35:43 -0400, John D Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve... what many of us do is just create an "INIT" function that you use > when creating the CFC instantiation. Pass the DSN into the init call when or > immediately after creating it. (assign it to variables.dsn ... or something > like that to make it available to all the functions of the CFC.) That should > get you where you want to go. > > John Farrar > SOSensible > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Steve Bryant > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 9:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [CFCDev] Encapsulation and Request vars (was Function Libraries) > > I have a practical question to bring to this little discussion. > > I am currently coding my first site which makes large-scale (for me) use of > CFCs. Most of these CFCs access the database for the site. I am currently > using a request variable to store the datasource. I am not doing this > because I don't believe in the value of encapsulation, but rather because I > can't figure out a better way to handle it. > > I don't want to pass the datasource in to each and every method. I don't > want to incur a bunch of overhead in getting the datasource for query in > every method. I do want to be able to invoke some methods (via cfinvoke) > without first instantiating the object. > > I am certainly missing some good practice of which others are aware. I > would love to be enlightened. > > Thanks All! > > Steve > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
