On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my application.cfm, I would declare my application, set the app
> parameters, and setup any global variables I wanted. For instance,
> within Application.cfm I had the following
>
> <cfset host = "mydomain.com">
>
That's only really global by virtue of the fact that Application.cfm
executes on every request.
>
> This way I could have #host# in all of my code instead of the actual
> domain name (in case it changed). To my understanding, application.cfm
> simply ran every time the page ran so it automatically declared the
> 'host' variable.
>
Right, you can still do this the same way if you put that line in the
OnRequestStart method in Application.cfc.
>
> Looking at some examples, do I need to declare my application as a
> component now?
>
I don't understand the question.
>
> Here's what I've written so far. This seems to be working, but I had
> to add 'application.' to the front of the variables listed. (host,
> etc).
>
Not necessarily true depending on where you put things and what you want to
do.
>
> Do I just need to figure on going back and adding 'application.' as a
> prefix to those variables I declared in application.cfm?
>
Not necessarily, no. You may not want everything in your application scope.
> <cfset this.clientmanagement = "yes">
> <cfset this.clientstorage = "cookie">
>
Are you using client variables?
<cffunction name="onApplicationStart">
> <cfset application.imageMagickFolder = "c:\program
> files\ImageMagick\">
> <cfset application.showSiteAlert = 1>
> <cfset application.host = "details.at">
> <cfset application.adminID = 1>
> </cffunction>
>
This *may* be fine and honestly is a better way to do it than your previous
method if those are truly application-wide variables.
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