Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2008

I must be missing something. I thought once you set the session variable in the
in the application.cfc file and then used cfset on the main page to set the
session variable to something it remained active till you logged out/ended the
session/browser closed,etc.  But mine aren't carrying over from one page of the
form to the next page.  I also need them to remain if a person goes out of the
folder containing the application.cfc page.  Do I need to use <cfset session.id
= "#form.variable#"> on all the pages or does the application.cfc file need to
have this somewhere in my onRequestStart function?   If a person goes out of
the folder containing the .cfc file and returns to the maintenance page
shouldn't the session variable still remain active?  Any help is greatly
appreciated. Wendy

<!--- application.cfc page ----->
<cfcomponent>
    <cfset This.name = "dashboardApplication">
    <cfset This.sessionManagement = "True">
    <cfset This.loginstorage = "session">
    <cfset This.sessiontimeout = "#createtimespan(0,1,0,0)#">
    <cfset This.applicationtimeout ="#createtimespan(0,2,0,0)#">

<cffunction name="OnRequestStart">
       <cfargument name = "request" required="true"/>
       <cfif IsDefined("Form.logout")>
           <cflogout>
       </cfif>
       
        <cflogin>
        <cfif NOT IsDefined("cflogin")>
            <cfinclude template="loginorg.cfm">
            <cfabort>
        <cfelse>
            <cfif cflogin.name IS "" OR cflogin.password IS "">
                <cfoutput>
                    <h2>You must enter text in both the User Name and Password
fields.
                    </h2>
                </cfoutput>
                <cfinclude template="loginorg.cfm">
                <cfabort>
            <cfelse>
                <cfquery name="loginQuery" dataSource="hrapps_papaya">
                SELECT emplid,passwd
                FROM km_personal
                WHERE
                    emplid = '#cflogin.name#'
                    AND passwd = '#cflogin.password#'
                </cfquery>
               
                <cfif loginQuery.emplid NEQ "">
                    <cfif loginQuery.emplid EQ "8888">
                    <cfloginuser name="#cflogin.name#" Password = "#cflogin.password#"
                        roles="user,admin">
                    <cfelse>
                    <cfloginuser name="#cflogin.name#" Password =
"#cflogin.password#"
                        roles="user">
                    </cfif>
                <cfelse>
                    <cfoutput>
                        <H2>Your login information is not valid.<br>
                        Please Try again</H2>
                    </cfoutput>    
                    <cfinclude template="loginorg.cfm">
                    <cfabort>
                </cfif>
            </cfif>    
        </cfif>
    </cflogin>
    </cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

< !---   first page after user successfully logs in - maintenance ---->

<cfif Isdefined ("SESSION.emplid")>
    <cfset SESSION.emplid = "#FORM.j_username#">
</cfif>

<!--- update page --->
<!--- I don't have the above as I thought the session variables would carry
over --->