If you're interested in the underworkings of FarCry with regards to how it converts objectIds to FU names, take a look at core/packages/types/farFU.cfc. All the methods are in there. ie. If you have an objectId and want to get the FU name, you might want to try getFU().
Regards, -- Jeff Coughlin On May 10, 2012, at 9:29 AM, funand learning wrote: > Ok I am able to understand this slowly. So furl is set by the web server. Can > you tell me if the following steps are right? > > 1) User requests a URL like > www.example.com?objectid=29187398kajsdkjshakdhaksjhd > > 2) This URL is converted toFURL by webserver during onrequeststart method of > coldfusion (am I right?) > > 3) When webserver tries to convert, how does it know which table to query? > Suppose in my case, for the above example URL, the fURL looks like > www.example.com/abc-hello-world. SO the for above url variable objectid, > "abc-hello-world" is retreived from the database to append to the URL. When > and how is this done by web server? > > Thanks > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Justin Carter <[email protected]> > wrote: > The furl variable in the URL is usually created by the rewrite rules on the > web server before the request is sent through to ColdFusion, so you'll need > to look in the appropriate place depending on which web server you are using. > Commonly it will be mod_rewrite rules in your vhost configuration in Apache, > or IIRF / IIS Rewrite for IIS. > > If the friendly URL rewrite rules are already set up correctly for your web > server then you will typically not need to change them :) > > Cheers, > Justin > > On May 10, 2012 10:48 PM, "funand learning" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sorry, I wanted to know when is the variable FURL created? Which > function of coldfusion code takes the objectid from the URL and converts into > FURL? > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:45 AM, funand learning <[email protected]> > wrote: > Thanks for responding Blair. Yes thats what I meant. Can you tell me if the > following part of the code does that? > > <cfif structKeyExists(url, "returnURL")> > <cfset session.loginReturnURL = application.fapi.fixURL(url.returnURL) > /> > </cfif> > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Blair McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you mean the point where the user is redirected from that URL to the > friendly one? The FU handling is done in onRequestStart in core's > application.cfc. If the user is using a non-friendly url at that point, and > the application supports friendly urls, FarCry will redirect the user. > > Blair > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:47 PM, funandlearning <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi All - > > I am new to farcry and looking at some existing code. I have a > question on friendly URL. At what time of the application do the > actual URL gets parsed to friendly URL. > > Suppose I have a href link as > > <a href="www.example.com?objectid=123askjhdakjshdkasjhd">Go to new > page</a> > > When I click the above link, the new page URL is a friendly URL. I > checked in onApplicationStart, but the URL is constructed even before > that. Can you let me know at what time is the URL parsed, and which > function does it? Is it fixURL function in utils.cfc? > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry > > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry > > > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry > > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
