Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files
Extending CFC's is great, use it all the time for creating Base CFC's for DAO, Beans, and Gateways. Easy way to add common functionality to existing cfc's throughout the development of your app. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Clarke Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dusty and Doug for your thoughts last week. Also, I wanted to report back on what I ended up with as I think it's working really well now. What I ended up with is: /webroot/ Application.cfc accessibleStuff.cfm /secure/ Application.cfc stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm I think I needed to stop and restart the server when I wrote the previous message, because this is working and making sense now. I added one thing to the onSessionStart method of the webroot/Application.cfc: SESSION.isLoggedIn = False This, of course initializes the isLoggedIn value when the session first starts. I have other stuff that runs in webroot/Application.cfc methods/events, and I didn't want to mess that up or complicate it. So, I added another Application.cfc in webroot/secure/Application.cfc. The second Application.cfc was setup to extend the one in the webroot. Just add extends=Application (where Application includes the full path to the CFC) as a parameter in the cfcomponent tag. Then add an onRequestStart method the the second Application.cfc which overrides the method in webroot/Application.cfc. And in that method, all I do is: cfif SESSION.isLoggedIn EQ False cflocation url=../login.cfm /cfif So any request for a page in my /secure/ directory gets automatically checked to see if the user is logged in, and if not, they get redirected. The login.cfm page is up a level from the /secure/ directory, so it doesn't get checked for login or redirected. A lot of you may know how to do all this, but I have been very pleased with how clean and straightforward it is. So, just in case, I wanted to tell everyone. Thanks again for the help! Clarke -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Douglas Knudsen *Sent:* Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:07 AM *To:* discussion@acfug.org *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files Clarke, yup, should be able to just extend the root Application.cfc with the one(s) below to get all that 'inheritance' goodness. One thing though is a little issue with CF in this regard. You can't extend the root Applicaiton.cfc do to some pathing thing. To get around this though you can create a proxy. You can read all about it on that CF super hero's blog http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Extending_Your_Root_Applicationcfc Also, Ray Camden has a great write up using this Application.cfc animal http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/11/9/Applicationcfc-Methods-and-Example-Uses DK On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Clarke Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my webroot, I am trying to setup a secure directory where a login is required. I got some good ideas the other day from Doug, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what I'm trying to do /webroot/ accessibleStuff.cfm /secure/ stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm So, anything in the secure directory requires a login. Now, I've got an Application.cfc in my webroot. All, I have to do, is put another Application.cfc in the secure directory and check for login. Problem 1. CF only processes one Application.cfc. So, when I add the second Application.cfc, all my session initialization, error handling, etc. in webroot.Application doesn't run. I think the answer to this is to make the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, but maybe there's a better way. Problem 2. When I did have the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, cfm pages in the secure directory don't fire the OnSessionStart event located in webroot.Application. My plan was to test the value of SESSION.IsLoggedIn, but it's failing because IsLoggedIn did not get initialized by OnSessionStart. What am I missing? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Clarke - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink http://www.fusionlink.com
RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files
Thanks Dusty and Doug for your thoughts last week. Also, I wanted to report back on what I ended up with as I think it's working really well now. What I ended up with is: /webroot/ Application.cfc accessibleStuff.cfm /secure/ Application.cfc stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm I think I needed to stop and restart the server when I wrote the previous message, because this is working and making sense now. I added one thing to the onSessionStart method of the webroot/Application.cfc: SESSION.isLoggedIn = False This, of course initializes the isLoggedIn value when the session first starts. I have other stuff that runs in webroot/Application.cfc methods/events, and I didn't want to mess that up or complicate it. So, I added another Application.cfc in webroot/secure/Application.cfc. The second Application.cfc was setup to extend the one in the webroot. Just add extends=Application (where Application includes the full path to the CFC) as a parameter in the cfcomponent tag. Then add an onRequestStart method the the second Application.cfc which overrides the method in webroot/Application.cfc. And in that method, all I do is: cfif SESSION.isLoggedIn EQ False cflocation url=../login.cfm /cfif So any request for a page in my /secure/ directory gets automatically checked to see if the user is logged in, and if not, they get redirected. The login.cfm page is up a level from the /secure/ directory, so it doesn't get checked for login or redirected. A lot of you may know how to do all this, but I have been very pleased with how clean and straightforward it is. So, just in case, I wanted to tell everyone. Thanks again for the help! Clarke _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:07 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files Clarke, yup, should be able to just extend the root Application.cfc with the one(s) below to get all that 'inheritance' goodness. One thing though is a little issue with CF in this regard. You can't extend the root Applicaiton.cfc do to some pathing thing. To get around this though you can create a proxy. You can read all about it on that CF super hero's blog http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Extending_Your_Root_A pplicationcfc Also, Ray Camden has a great write up using this Application.cfc animal http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/11/9/Applicationcfc-Methods-and -Example-Uses DK On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Clarke Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my webroot, I am trying to setup a secure directory where a login is required. I got some good ideas the other day from Doug, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what I'm trying to do /webroot/ accessibleStuff.cfm /secure/ stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm So, anything in the secure directory requires a login. Now, I've got an Application.cfc in my webroot. All, I have to do, is put another Application.cfc in the secure directory and check for login. Problem 1. CF only processes one Application.cfc. So, when I add the second Application.cfc, all my session initialization, error handling, etc. in webroot.Application doesn't run. I think the answer to this is to make the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, but maybe there's a better way. Problem 2. When I did have the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, cfm pages in the secure directory don't fire the OnSessionStart event located in webroot.Application. My plan was to test the value of SESSION.IsLoggedIn, but it's failing because IsLoggedIn did not get initialized by OnSessionStart. What am I missing? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Clarke - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink http://www.fusionlink.com - - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
[ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files
In my webroot, I am trying to setup a secure directory where a login is required. I got some good ideas the other day from Doug, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what I'm trying to do /webroot/ accessibleStuff.cfm /secure/ stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm So, anything in the secure directory requires a login. Now, I've got an Application.cfc in my webroot. All, I have to do, is put another Application.cfc in the secure directory and check for login. Problem 1. CF only processes one Application.cfc. So, when I add the second Application.cfc, all my session initialization, error handling, etc. in webroot.Application doesn't run. I think the answer to this is to make the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, but maybe there's a better way. Problem 2. When I did have the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, cfm pages in the secure directory don't fire the OnSessionStart event located in webroot.Application. My plan was to test the value of SESSION.IsLoggedIn, but it's failing because IsLoggedIn did not get initialized by OnSessionStart. What am I missing? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Clarke - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files
I haven't tried this with Application.cfc but this does work in Application.cfm so I assume it would work. Just use one app file and put some code like this in it: cfset thisPath = ExpandPath(*.*) cfset thisDirectory = GetDirectoryFromPath(thisPath) cfset folderName = listlast(thisDirectory,\) cfif folderName is secure Do login routine /cfif I just tried it and seems to do what you describe. -Dusty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clarke Bishop Sent: 05/23/2008 6:53 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files In my webroot, I am trying to setup a secure directory where a login is required. I got some good ideas the other day from Doug, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what I'm trying to do /webroot/ accessibleStuff.cfm /secure/ stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm So, anything in the secure directory requires a login. Now, I've got an Application.cfc in my webroot. All, I have to do, is put another Application.cfc in the secure directory and check for login. Problem 1. CF only processes one Application.cfc. So, when I add the second Application.cfc, all my session initialization, error handling, etc. in webroot.Application doesn't run. I think the answer to this is to make the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, but maybe there's a better way. Problem 2. When I did have the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, cfm pages in the secure directory don't fire the OnSessionStart event located in webroot.Application. My plan was to test the value of SESSION.IsLoggedIn, but it's failing because IsLoggedIn did not get initialized by OnSessionStart. What am I missing? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Clarke - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files
Clarke, yup, should be able to just extend the root Application.cfc with the one(s) below to get all that 'inheritance' goodness. One thing though is a little issue with CF in this regard. You can't extend the root Applicaiton.cfc do to some pathing thing. To get around this though you can create a proxy. You can read all about it on that CF super hero's blog http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Extending_Your_Root_Applicationcfc Also, Ray Camden has a great write up using this Application.cfc animal http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/11/9/Applicationcfc-Methods-and-Example-Uses DK On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Clarke Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my webroot, I am trying to setup a secure directory where a login is required. I got some good ideas the other day from Doug, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what I'm trying to do /webroot/ accessibleStuff.cfm /secure/ stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm So, anything in the secure directory requires a login. Now, I've got an Application.cfc in my webroot. All, I have to do, is put another Application.cfc in the secure directory and check for login. Problem 1. CF only processes one Application.cfc. So, when I add the second Application.cfc, all my session initialization, error handling, etc. in webroot.Application doesn't run. I think the answer to this is to make the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, but maybe there's a better way. Problem 2. When I did have the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, cfm pages in the secure directory don't fire the OnSessionStart event located in webroot.Application. My plan was to test the value of SESSION.IsLoggedIn, but it's failing because IsLoggedIn did not get initialized by OnSessionStart. What am I missing? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Clarke - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
