I am in the process of making a few new ColdFusion websites. Here is the nuts and bolts of them 1) An internal intranet page available to our accounting department that will allow them to pull inventory reports from an Access/SQL database. I have a simple login where CF checks against a table in the DB for credentials. I eventually want to make this login integrated with AD. My Question - are there any IN DEPTH tutorials on AD integration? 2) A CF page on our website where customers can check their shipments. We are a logistics company and I want to re-write where an external customer can log in and check their shipments/loads that will pull from our DB2 database. We already have a table setup that has their credentials, so I need to find out about best practices for sessions. My Question - What is the best way to pass credentials on for a session? For Example, customer ABC logs in and only gets info for his company. I don't want to really pass that info in the URL, but somehow through the session. Sorry for the long-winded questions, I am new to CF, but I am very eager to learn. I have done tons of Google searches, and found plenty of info, but these are two that I can't seem to get around. Thanks in advance.
How would you word "storing it in session". For example "ColdFusion session variable" I am googling some keywords to get a starting point since I am starting at ground zero.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusio...ion_MX_Applications_with_CFML/sharedVars5.htm I'll sometimes store variables in hidden form fields. Works as long as you're using a submit button to get from page to page.