I use ColdFusion and jQuery all the time with no problems. In fact, I
use it with mach-ii. Looks like you're using fusebox? Just a guess.
Calling the CFC directly is your problem. When you do that, it bypasses
the application.cfm/cfc, which is normally where your session scope is
defined. Because you are not going through the same application scope,
your session variables won't be there.
Better to create an event (in mach-ii terms) that your application
engine can understand and just pass it through that way, just like a
normal browser call.
instead of:
/myapp/model/System.cfc?method=authenticate&returnFormat=json
Something like
index.cfm?fuseaction=authenticate
Then let your framework do the rest.
-dave evartt
Westside wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use ColdFusion and JQuery but I'm having some problems
setting/reading session variables. I have a login box that I use
jquery to do the ajax work. In my ajax call I have this snippet
$(form).ajaxSubmit({
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
url: '/myapp/model/System.cfc?method=authenticate&returnFormat=json'
success: function(resp, textStatus){
if(resp[0]==true){
window.location.href = 'index.cfm?fuseaction=myapp.home';
}
});
So within System.cfc there is a method called "authenticate", in this
method I'm trying to set some session variables (e.g, session.email,
session.title) that I can reference once the user is logged in. So
if the response from the ajax call returns true, the user gets
redirected to this other page using window.location.href shown above.
For some reason though, these session variables don't exist
(session.email, session.title) when I try to cfdump them out on the
'index.cfm?fuseaction=myapp.home' page. I can dump them in the CFC
and see that they are getting set correctly, but outside the CFC, they
dont show up. Can anyone please shed some light on why I can't see my
session variables? It mus thave something to do with calling the CFC
directly or something....
Thanks
