Yeah. getprofilesections() and getprofilestring() work perfectly. When I first read the description I thought the function expected the file to end in ".ini". Thanks guys!
On Mar 19, 2:28 am, "Hugo Ahlenius" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running two COTS open source systems under my web root - Mura CMS and > project tracker - and they both have a ini file with a cfm ending, and > precautions to <cfabort> if it is accessed directly. The files are in a > separate 'config' folder.http://svn.riaforge.org/projecttracker/trunk/config/ > > For Mura it seems to be written during install time, since I can't see it > when browsing the svn repo. > > /Hugo > > -- > Hugo Ahlenius > [email protected] > > > > > > > > | -----Original Message----- > > | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of > | Aaron J. White > | Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 21:08 > | To: Open BlueDragon > | Subject: Making it easy for users to define global application settings > | > | Hey all, > | > | Trying to write an open source application with OpenBD that is very > | simple to deploy. A lot of opensource applications I use in php like > | YOURLS or Joomla! usually have a simple configuration.php file that > | you can open with a text editor to modify the variables. To me this > | seems clean and easy for most users to do. I would like to emulate > | this behavior in my app, but I don't want users to have to touch the > | application.cfc. > | > | How would you guys do this? Below is my first attempt that works, > | however, I don't know if there is a cleaner way or a way that doesn't > | require an application restart. > | > | //** Start Code in Application.cfc **// > | <cffunction name="onApplicationStart" returnType="boolean" > | output="false"> > | > | <!--- define default settings ---> > | <cfset application.defaults= { > | setting1="notOverwritten", > | setting2="notOverwritten", > | setting3="notOverwritten", > | setting4="notOverwritten" > | } /> > | > | <!--- grab user settings ---> > | <cfinclude template="settings.cfm" /> > | > | <cfreturn true > > | </cffunction> > | //** End Code Application.cfc **// > | //** Start Code in Settings.cfm **// > | <cfscript> > | structAppend(application.settings, { > | /*Change settings below this line*/ > | > | setting1: 'setting1', /* true */ > | setting2: 'setting2', /* 'big' */ > | setting3: 'setting3' /* 10 */ > | > | }); > | </cfscript> > | > | //** End Code Settings.cfm **// > | > | -- > | online documentation:http://openbd.org/manual/ > | google+ hints/tips:https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 > | http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
