Damien, It's likely that you are setting application variables because you say they "are stored in the application scope". Application variables are designed to be set once and read many times - or at least ap variables like DSN are designed this way. Just changing the file will not reload these variables per se - unless your code is written to write to the variables over and over (as some code is).
I have a blog on Ap variables that might shed some light. http://mkruger.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm?mode=alias&alias=application.variabl es Sean Corfield has some excellent insites that he added as well on a subsequent blog. http://mkruger.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm?mode=alias&alias=application.variabl es -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Please help correct an assumption regarding Application.cfm I have an assumption regarding Application.cfm that I'm starting to question. It was my understanding that the Application.cfm file was loaded+compiled the first time when a file in that directory was loaded, e.g. the first time someone loads index.cfm the Application.cfm file for that directory was loaded. After that the file was not loaded+compiled again until it was changed, i.e. a new version was uploaded. Further from that, it was also my understanding that the same was true for all files cfinclude'd from Application.cfm. Are my assumptions correct? The reason I ask is that today one of our sites trapped an error that suggests otherwise. The Application.cfm for all of our sites loads a shared file which sets some common variables - DSN names, common URLs, etc, all of which are stored in the Application scope. The error that was logged said that one of these variables was not set, which does not make sense based on my assumptions above. So any ideas on why this might have happened? Thanks. -- Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014 #include <stdjoke.h> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:217546 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
