Rick Faircloth wrote: > I'm trying to set session variables for login with the code below. > It works fine on my local dev pc, but on the production server, > no session variables are being set. Is the code below not appropriate? > > Thanks, > > Rick
ColdFusion does not care, but lots of OOP types will probably point out that it is considered bad practice to reference external scopes inside of a component. Just for this type of difficulty. ColdFusion's only problem with this is the for sessions to work properly all code referencing the same session must be in the same 'application' as determined with an <cfapplication...> tags with the same 'name' property. How this affects components is that they are often placed in directories outside the normal web directories and thus are not under the usual Application.cfm|.cfc file that defines that application name. This is easy to fix by making sure that somehow or the other the component runs an <cfapplication....> tag with the desired application name. But this can become very complex very quickly if the coponent is meant to be used by different applications running on the system. Thus we are back to the OOP best practice of not referencing external scopes to the the component. The better idea would be to return a structure of the data you are planning on putting into the session scope. Then the calling code, that presumably is part of the appropriate 'application' will receive this structure and can simply copy it into the session scope. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
