I create a CFC with the same name as my application. From the other CFC, in my constructor, I can do:
<cfinvoke components="cflib" method="getSettings" returnVariable="settings">
Then my queries use settings.dsn.
My Application.cfm makes the same call so it can just global vars as well. I use this instead of a app_globals file now.
I know it has been discouraged other than for debugging-type methods, but is it so wrong to put the global settings as a method in the WEB-INF/cftags/component.cfc so that every component inherits the settings automatically? It seems like it makes code maintenance a little easier (i.e., if you change the name of the CFC or method name that returns the settings, you have to refactor every CFC in your app).
Just throwing it out there to see people's thoughts.
Regards, Dave.
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