Hi,
You're right, the problem was due to not passing the request through
index.cfm. I am using Fusebox as you mentioned.
Thanks!
On Nov 20, 1:26 pm, Dave Evartt <da...@wehali.com> wrote:
> 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
