CGI variables

[clustcant]

Having some trouble with this and I hope you guys can help. When I build my appliocation.cfm, I'm trying to set a CGI variable for pathing out my images. But nothing works. Every path config I try does not work. And the current project I'm on has a lot of includes but images are not showing in my includes.
Any help?

 

[csteinhilber]

ColdFusion is not able to set CGI variables, AFAIK. They're exposed as read-only.

But the good news is you really don't need to. If you're using an Application.cfm, you can simply set a standard Variable scope variable and all the .cfm files that use that Application.cfm will have access to it.

ie-
Application.cfm-

<CFSET Variables.myImagePath = &quot;/images&quot;>

and
somePageInTheSameDirectory.cfm-

<CFOUTPUT><IMG SRC=&quot;#myImagePath#/someimage.gif&quot; /></CFOUTPUT>

Or, I'm not quite sure why you would in this case, but you could set an application, session, or client variable, too, that could be used universally (well, within the appropriate scope).


BUT, I'm not entirely sure this would be the appropriate solution to your problem, anyway. You should always be spec'ing images with their paths relative to the webroot. Why are they not showing up?
Hope it helps,
-Carl