HI Mike,

    I'm interested in this too.  Please tell me about other methods to clear
the session.

Lewis

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Mike Chabot <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> As a side note, don't use StructClear(Session) to clear the session
> structure because it can lead to some subtle problems. This is
> specifically mentioned in the CF manual. There are safer methods that
> you should be able to find and copy/paste without too much trouble.
>
> -Mike Chabot
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:51 AM, John  Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I think that i am having an issue with onRequestStart in my
> Application.cfc. I am trying to write a login app, which I think that should
> work fine, but I can't get past the checkLogin page. I might be wrong but I
> think that it is due to the onRequestStart function. Any help would be
> great.
> >
> > Since I clear the session in 1 minute, I don't think that this is the
> reason, and for the logout page, I was thinking that I can clear  everything
> with:
> > <<!--- logout.cfm--->
> > <cfset StructClear(Session)>
> > <!--- redirect the user to the home page--->
> >
> > The database is set up correct, and I get no errors. I feel lost on this,
> as I can't get passed the form to login to the welcome page. I still need to
> make the form friendly with errors message if the login fails, but I want to
> get it working first!
> >
> >
> > thanks so much for any help,
> > Johnny
> >
> > here is the code
> >
> > <!--- Aplication.cfc--->
> > <cfcomponent displayname="Application" output="true" hint="Handle the
> application.">
> >
> >        <cfset this.Name = "login" />
> >
> >    <cfset this.SessionTimeout= CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 1, 0) />
> >    <cfset thIs.ApplicationTimeout =  CreateTimeSpan( 0, 0, 1, 0 ) />
> >
> >    <cfset this.SessionManagement = "yes" />
> >    <cfset this.clientmanagement="yes" />
> >    <cfset this.SetClientCookies = "no" />
> >
> >    <cffunction name="onApplicationStart" output="no" returntype="void">
> >                <cfset REQUEST.dataSource ="my_DSN">
> >
> >    </cffunction>
> >
> >    <cffunction name="onRequestStart" output="no" returntype="void">
> >        <!---if the user is not login in, force them to log in--->
> >        <cfif not isDefined ("SESSION.auth.isLoggedIn")>
> >                <!---if the user is submitting the "login" form--->
> >            <!---include the "Login Check" to validate the user--->
> >            <cfif isDefined("FORM.userLogin")>
> >                <cfinclude template="loginCheck.cfm">
> >            </cfif>
> >            <cfinclude template="loginForm.cfm">
> >            <cfabort>
> >        </cfif>
> >    </cffunction>
> > </cfcomponent>
> >
> > <!--- index.cfm--->
> > <cfquery name="getUser" datasource="myDSN">
> >        SELECT user_id, userName, userPassword
> >    FROM users
> > </cfquery>
> >
> > <cfoutput query="getUser">
> >        Welcome #getUser.userName#
> > </cfoutput>
> >
> > <!---loginForm.cfm--->
> > <!---
> >        Filename - loginForm.cfc
> >        Created by - John Barrett ([email protected])
> >        Reason - the main loginForm for the application(included in the
> main Application file)
> > --->
> >
> >
> > <!---if the user is submitting the "login" form--->
> > <!---include the "Login Check" to validate the user--->
> >        <cfif isDefined("FORM.userLogin")>
> >        <cfinclude template="loginCheck.cfm">
> >    </cfif>
> >
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> > <head>
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
> > <title>Please login</title>
> > </head>
> >
> > <body>
> >        <!---start the login form--->
> >    <cfform action="loginCheck.cfm" name="loginForm" method="post">
> >
> >        <cfinput type="hidden" name="userName_required" />
> >        <cfinput type="hidden" name="userPassword_required" />
> >
> >
> >        <table border="0">
> >                <tr>
> >                <td>username</td>
> >                <td>
> >
> >                    <cfinput
> >                        type="text"
> >                        name="userName"
> >                        message="Please type you username first!"
> >                        required="yes" id="userName"
> >                        value=""
> >                        size="20"
> >                        maxlength="100"
> >                    >
> >                </td>
> >           </tr>
> >           <tr>
> >                        <td>password</td>
> >                <td>
> >
> >                    <cfinput
> >                        type="password"
> >                        name="userPassword"
> >                        size="12"
> >                        value=""
> >                        maxlength="100"
> >                        required="yes"
> >                        message="Please type you password first!"
> >                    >
> >                </td>
> >           <tr>
> >                <td>
> >
> >                    <cfinput type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit"
> value="Submit">
> >                </td>
> >           </tr>
> >           </tr>
> >        </table>
> >    </cfform>
> >
> >
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> >
> > <!---LoginCheck.cfm--->
> > <cfquery name="getUser" datasource="my_DSN">
> >        SELECT user_id, userName, userPassword
> >    FROM users
> >    WHERE userName= '#FORM.userName#'
> >    AND userPassword= '#FORM.userPassword#'
> > </cfquery>
> >
> > <!--- if the user name and password are correct--->
> > <cfif getUser.recordcount eq 1>
> >        <!--- remember user's logged in status --->
> >        <!--- write user_id & userName in stucture--->
> >        <cfset SESSION.auth = structNew()>
> >        <cfset SESSION.auth.isLoggedIn = "yes">
> >        <cfset SESSION.user_id = getUser.user_id>
> >        <cfset SESSION.userName = getUser.userName>
> >
> >    <!--- Now that the user is loggin, wend them to the i
>
> 

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