Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

Using Application Variables

Now that application variables have been enabled, using them is quite simple. Basically, you create or set an application variable the same way you would set a normal variable, generally using the <cfset> tag. The only difference is the presence of the word APPLICATION, followed by a dot. For instance, the following line would set the APPLICATION.ourHitCount variable to 0. The variable would then be available to all pages in the application and would hold the value of 0 until it was changed:

<cfset APPLICATION.ourHitCount = 0>

You can use application variables in any of the same places you would use ordinary ones. For instance, the following code adds one to an application variable and then outputs the new value, ...