Thanks again. Sorry for any silly questions, but CFC's are something
I've neglected to wrap my head around and I really want to get it out
of the way.
In the case of my 'host' variable. I use it often, and I've decided
that it's best declared as a 'global' variable (in regards to
application.cfm) since I'd rather have it set from the beginning of
the app's instance.
I have no real issue with declaring it as application.host and
changing my code to use 'application.host' in place of just 'host'.
However, I'm curious if there's a way to declare my 'host' variable in
a way that will be used application wide, but without having to use
the variablename 'application.host'.
I tried the following, but I don't see 'host' in my dump
<cffunction name="onRequestStart">
<cfset host = "details.at">
</cffunction>
Am I missing something?
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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