login to directory

[77zxmax]

Hi all, i'm try to acheive the following:



User login with username and password (db backend)
>> if successful , he will be directed to his own folder

eg: if john is login in with username = john and password = password, >> he will be automatically directed to webroot\#john#\

where in each directory , there is a file called index.cfm that will display current folder content

i started with a simple login script >> including the application.cfm , but i failed to have make this work dynamic way ..

my final goal is : i want to insert files for members to grap , and each member should have his own private folder , where he will be directed there based on his login name

i hope i'm making sense ,

any help will be greatly appriciated

 

[Wullie]

What exactly is the problem you are having? We are here to help with specific issues you might be having, but we are not here to provide you with full working solutions.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[imstillatwork]

Where is it failing? Have you even used CFdump to see what you are doing? Are there errors?


Kevin

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[77zxmax]

thanks :

my very problem is in the cflocation tag:
i can't put dynamic entry ;
eg: <CFLOCATION URL="#username#/>

it seems that i can't put ## in the cflocation tag, only path format, is there a way around this

thanks again

 

[ecobb]

According to LiveDocs

cflocation

Stops execution of the current page and opens a ColdFusion page or HTML file.

You are not referencing a ColdFusion page or HTML file, you are referencing a directory, so that's why cflocation doesn't work.

Try something like:

<CFLOCATION URL="#username#/index.cfm>

OR

<CFLOCATION URL="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.yourwebsite.com/#username#/index.cfm>[/URL]

Hope This Helps!

ECAR
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[imstillatwork]

that's not necessarily true.

paste this and run it
<cflocation addtoken="No" url="

http://www.google.com">

A URL is perfectly valid ending in a directory. that request is sent to the

http://WWW server

and the

http://WWW server

decides what the default file is for that site.

I use file-less redirects all the time.

What is happening is A) he's obviously using relative paths by the look of the cflocation tag, so the complete URL he is calling is wrong or B) the folder does not exist. C) something else that I did not think of, however, option C covers that.




Kevin

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[FALCONSEYE]

adding to what Ecar said,

<cflocation url="/#username#/"> will only work if you set up the IIS to automatically go to the index.cfm

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[imstillatwork]

We need to see the value of #username#, the current URL in the address bar of the URL running that cflocation.

comment out your cflocation and just cfdump var="#username#/"> and give us both pieces of info i just mentioned.

Kevin

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[77zxmax]

the username name is coming from the database
<!--- this where i get username from the login page --->
<CFSET sLocalUserID = "">
<CFSET sLocalUserID = session.userid>

<!--- my database query --->
<CFQUERY name="table_member" datasource="kei">
SELECT *
FROM tblmember
</CFQUERY>

<!-- will be directed to his own folder --->
<CFCASE value="#session.userid#" >
<cflocation url = "/secure/custom/#session.userid#/" addToken = "no">

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i guess i could add an index.cfm page, that will display file in a directory format, .. but i would like to hide that index.cfm page ..

wouuld that work ?

 

[imstillatwork]

I'm assuming that's just samples of the code you're running.

CFDUMP or CFOUTPUT the value of session.userID

BTW, the way you are using cfcase looks bizarre to me. What else is it doing? Why are you dynamically getting a CFCASE value from a user ID? I have a feeling things are overly complicated and obfuscated.

But first, what is the value of session.userID?


Kevin

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[imstillatwork]

Now option D) might be that the cflocation tag is never even given a chance to run because of the switch / case being wonk.

Kevin

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[77zxmax]

i have this in my application.cfm

<cfquery name="qValidLogin" datasource="kei">
SELECT *
FROM tblMember
WHERE tblMember.MemberName = '#Form.username#' AND Password = '#Form.password#' </cfquery>


<cfset session.userid = #qValidLogin.MemberName#>

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i think i'm making it too complicated for myself

 

[imstillatwork]

Please /secure/custom/<cfoutput>#session.userid#</cfoutput>/ and let us know what the VALUE of the variable is.

Also let us know what is not working? is there errors? is there a blank page?


Kevin

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