Thanks Dusty and Doug for your thoughts last week. Also, I wanted to report
back on what I ended up with as I think it's working really well now.
What I ended up with is:
/webroot/
Application.cfc
accessibleStuff.cfm
/secure/
Application.cfc
stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm
I think I needed to stop and restart the server when I wrote the previous
message, because this is working and making sense now.
I added one thing to the onSessionStart method of the
webroot/Application.cfc:
SESSION.isLoggedIn = False
This, of course initializes the isLoggedIn value when the session first
starts.
I have other stuff that runs in webroot/Application.cfc methods/events, and
I didn't want to mess that up or complicate it.
So, I added another Application.cfc in webroot/secure/Application.cfc. The
second Application.cfc was setup to extend the one in the webroot.
Just add extends="Application" (where Application includes the full path to
the CFC) as a parameter in the <cfcomponent> tag.
Then add an onRequestStart method the the second Application.cfc which
overrides the method in webroot/Application.cfc. And in that method, all I
do is:
<cfif SESSION.isLoggedIn EQ False>
<cflocation url="../login.cfm">
</cfif>
So any request for a page in my /secure/ directory gets automatically
checked to see if the user is logged in, and if not, they get redirected.
The login.cfm page is up a level from the /secure/ directory, so it doesn't
get checked for login or redirected.
A lot of you may know how to do all this, but I have been very pleased with
how clean and straightforward it is. So, just in case, I wanted to tell
everyone.
Thanks again for the help!
Clarke
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:07 AM
To: discussion@acfug.org
Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Multiple Application.CFC files
Clarke, yup, should be able to just extend the root Application.cfc with the
one(s) below to get all that 'inheritance' goodness. One thing though is a
little issue with CF in this regard. You can't extend the root
Applicaiton.cfc do to some pathing thing. To get around this though you can
create a proxy. You can read all about it on that CF super hero's blog
http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Extending_Your_Root_A
pplicationcfc
Also, Ray Camden has a great write up using this Application.cfc animal
http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/11/9/Applicationcfc-Methods-and
-Example-Uses
DK
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Clarke Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
In my webroot, I am trying to setup a secure directory where a login is
required. I got some good ideas the other day from Doug, but I'm still
having trouble.
Here's what I'm trying to do
/webroot/
accessibleStuff.cfm
/secure/
stuffThatRequiresLogin.cfm
So, anything in the secure directory requires a login.
Now, I've got an Application.cfc in my webroot. All, I have to do, is put
another Application.cfc in the secure directory and check for login.
Problem 1.
CF only processes one Application.cfc. So, when I add the second
Application.cfc, all my session initialization, error handling, etc. in
webroot.Application doesn't run.
I think the answer to this is to make the second Application.cfc extend
webroot.Application, but maybe there's a better way.
Problem 2.
When I did have the second Application.cfc extend webroot.Application, cfm
pages in the secure directory don't fire the OnSessionStart event located in
webroot.Application.
My plan was to test the value of SESSION.IsLoggedIn, but it's failing
because IsLoggedIn did not get initialized by OnSessionStart.
What am I missing? Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks,
Clarke
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