RE: Logging users in with CFC
Mike, Macromedia has an article about this very topic: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/cfc_practices.ht ml Its been there for about a year so Im sure there are more comprehensive examples around by now. Regards, André -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 August 2003 04:24 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Logging users in with CFC Tony, to be honest, I'm not sure. It's just that I haven't seen any examples of CFCs being used for that functionality, so I wondered why. It seems that one of the ways to collect all the functionality related to users is to have a users.cfc where you'd have a method called login, one called listusers, one called updateprofile, one called emailpassword etc, and then all the database access, and action related to user access is in the one place. This is what's advocated in other applications about CFCs, but I haven't seen login, authentication, updating last login date, number of logins etc - all that user access stuff - gathered into a CFC. So I wondered if that was because people have always done it without CFCs and therefore old habits are at play, or whether there was a logical reason not to include this stuff in CFCs, that I wasn't seeing. (Believe me there's a LOT about my world that I don't see. Just ask my wife!) Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2003 1:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Logging users in with CFC what things might you be worried about? security? just wondering...i hadnt given it much thought but now that you mention it, what things are you wondering about? later. tw ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
RE: Logging users in with CFC
i cant fathom a reason not to. its probably just a prerogative choice for a developer to make. but then again...im sure someone will come up with a reason, albeit obscure, there might be one :) cheers... oh, and my wife...loves when im working...she talks, i nod and sometimes she quizzes me on the details...im about 95% winning percentage on the short term memory skills test ;) later -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Logging users in with CFC Tony, to be honest, I'm not sure. It's just that I haven't seen any examples of CFCs being used for that functionality, so I wondered why. It seems that one of the ways to collect all the functionality related to users is to have a users.cfc where you'd have a method called login, one called listusers, one called updateprofile, one called emailpassword etc, and then all the database access, and action related to user access is in the one place. This is what's advocated in other applications about CFCs, but I haven't seen login, authentication, updating last login date, number of logins etc - all that user access stuff - gathered into a CFC. So I wondered if that was because people have always done it without CFCs and therefore old habits are at play, or whether there was a logical reason not to include this stuff in CFCs, that I wasn't seeing. (Believe me there's a LOT about my world that I don't see. Just ask my wife!) Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2003 1:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Logging users in with CFC what things might you be worried about? security? just wondering...i hadnt given it much thought but now that you mention it, what things are you wondering about? later. tw ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
RE: Logging users in with CFC
Tony, to be honest, I'm not sure. It's just that I haven't seen any examples of CFCs being used for that functionality, so I wondered why. It seems that one of the ways to collect all the functionality related to users is to have a users.cfc where you'd have a method called login, one called listusers, one called updateprofile, one called emailpassword etc, and then all the database access, and action related to user access is in the one place. This is what's advocated in other applications about CFCs, but I haven't seen login, authentication, updating last login date, number of logins etc - all that user access stuff - gathered into a CFC. So I wondered if that was because people have always done it without CFCs and therefore old habits are at play, or whether there was a logical reason not to include this stuff in CFCs, that I wasn't seeing. (Believe me there's a LOT about my world that I don't see. Just ask my wife!) Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2003 1:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Logging users in with CFC what things might you be worried about? security? just wondering...i hadnt given it much thought but now that you mention it, what things are you wondering about? later. tw ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
RE: Logging users in with CFC
what things might you be worried about? security? just wondering...i hadnt given it much thought but now that you mention it, what things are you wondering about? later. tw -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Logging users in with CFC I'm learning about CFCs, and becoming more and more a devotee every day. I see lots of benefits with becoming adept at using them, but something has drawn my attention I've not seen an example of using a CFC to log users in and handle their authorization etc. I know the code isn't much to log someone in, but it seems to me that if you have a CFC to handle all the manipulation of users profiles and access etc, then you ought to have the login code in that CFC too. Are there any pros and cons with putting the username/password verification etc into a "users.cfc" along with a function to update the profile and list users and other user functions? I just like the idea of putting all that code together in once place, leaving the presentation aspects to the .cfm files. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
