Try this:
<cfset authTest = "session.auth.#articleId#">
<cfif isDefined("authTest")>
(do something)
<cfelse>
(do something else)
</cfif>
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>I have a variable in a struct called session.auth that is related to the id
>of the article the user is seeing. If the variable #session.auth.100824#
>exists, the user can visit article 100824 otherwise he's denied access.
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>How can I check that this variable exists? I have tried the following and
>it throws an error, saying that isdefined has to have a syntactically valid
>variable name:
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>Where did I get it wrong please?
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>Here's what I've put that throws an error:
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><cfif isdefined("Session.auth[#articleid#]")>
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>you're in
>
><cfelse>
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>you're out
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></cfif>
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>Cheers,
>
>Michael Kear
>
>Windsor, NSW, Australia
>
>AFP Webworks.
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