Hi Marc, Yeah we did consider that but there was a few twists and turns to that solution which would have resulted in us basically rewritting the core method as a database script.
I've actually just had a bit of a brainstorm with one of the guys here and I think we might have come up with a solution in that we just leave the dates and run a scheduled task to wipe any redundant data at a later stage. Cheers, James On Jan 18, 11:30 am, "Marc Esher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never heard of anything native in CF for doing this. > > I'm going to assume that if you're asking this there isn't much use in going > back to the 3rd party tool creators and asking them to add listener hooks. > > but what about doing it the old fashioned way: putting a trigger on your DB > that looks for changes from 1 to 0 in that column and then responds > appropriately. > > Best, > > marc > > On Jan 18, 2008 6:11 AM, Clarkee21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > I'm a bit of an OO newbie so I was wondering if someone on here might > > be able to help me find an approach to my problem. > > > I have two methods - > > Method #1 is a core part of a 3rd party open source application we're > > running in-house. > > Method #2 is part of a plugin I'm developing for this application. > > > Method #1 is used to simply switch a section of a page on or off. In > > other words is sets a DB field "visible" to 0 or 1 depending on the > > section's current status. > > > Method #2 is used to reset two date fields in my table. > > > What I want to do is somehow have method #2 executed the moment method > > #1 has run but, and here is the twist, I don't want to have to rewrite > > anything in method #1 or it's object. This is mainly because a) we're > > planning to release this back out into the community at a later stage > > so I'd rather have it as a single directory of stand-alone files and > > b) it would mean we'd have to insert the code into method #1 again and > > retest if we ever upgraded. > > > Is there anyway that method #2 can "listen" for method #1 being > > executed without method #1 being aware that there is anything else > > going on? > > > Cheers, > > James- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
