User Guide

cfapplication 53

If you use this tag to activate the Application and Client scopes, ColdFusion saves the application

name as a key, whose maximum length is 64 characters. If an application name is longer than this,

the client store fails during database processing.

Note: The CFTOKEN variable is 8 bytes in length. Its range is 10000000 —99999999.If you

specify ClientStorage=cookie, any Client scope variables set following a cfflush tag are not

saved in the Client browser.

Example

<!--- This example shows how to use cflock to guarantee consistent data

updates to variables in Application, Server, and Session scopes. --->

<h3>cfapplication Example</h3>

<p>cfapplication defines scoping for a ColdFusion application and

enables or disables the storing of application and/or sessionvariables.

This tag is placed in a special file calledApplication.cfm that is run

before any other CF page in a directory where the Application.cfm file

appears.

<cfapplication name = "ETurtle"

sessionTimeout = #CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 60)#

sessionManagement = "Yes">

<!--- Initialize session and application variables used by E-Turtleneck.

Use session scope for session variables. --->

</cfif>

</cfif>

</cflock>

<!--- Use the application scope for the application variable. This variable

keeps track of total number of turtlenecks sold. --->

</cfif>

</cflock>

E-Turtleneck is proud to say that we have sold #application.number#

turtlenecks to date.

</cfoutput>

</cflock>