Mike - I do almost the same thing Dave recommended. (It took me awhile to
grasp how these work too - - and I am still learning new things you can
accomplish through these methods.) But what I do - -
>From my webpage - I call menu.cfm through the module tag, passing in items
like - what page is it associated to (if not the home page), the menu title
and The CURRENT Page calling the tag, etc (These help me with formatting):
<cfmodule
template="menu.cfm"
AssocPageID="#GetPageContent.PageID#"
MenuTitle="#GetPageContent.Title#"
ThisPageID="#GetPageContent.PageID#">
Then in my Menu page - I setup various attributes:
<!--- For Main --->
<cfparam name="Attributes.ThisPageID" default="0">
<cfparam name="Attributes.MenuTitle" default="">
<!--- For Sub--->
<cfparam name="Attributes.AssocPageID" default="0">
<cfset CurrentPage=GetFileFromPath(GetTemplatePath())>
***Then I do a bunch of Queries based on the info passed - - following is
simplified***
<cfquery name="qryGetAllMenu" datasource="#Application.DSN#"
username="#Application.username#" password="#Application.password#">
SELECT ContentMenu.PageID, Content.Title, ContentMenu.AssocID,
ContentMenu.Sort
FROM ContentMenu, Content
WHERE ContentMenu.AssocID = '0'
AND Content.PageID = ContentMenu.PageID
AND Content.Active = 1
ORDER BY Sort ASC
</cfquery>
<div id="SiteNavContainer">
<ul>
<li <cfif IsDefined("CurrentPage") AND #CurrentPage# EQ
"index.cfm">id="current"</cfif>><a
href="<cfoutput>#Application.WebRoot#</cfoutput>index.cfm"
target="_parent"><span>Home</span></a></li>
<cfloop query="qryGetAllMenu">
<cfoutput>
<li ><a
href="#Application.WebRoot#content.cfm?PageID=#PageID#"
target="_parent"<cfif #CurrentPage# EQ "content.cfm" AND
IsDefined("Attributes.ThisPageID") AND #Attributes.ThisPageID# EQ
#qryGetAllMenu.PageID#>id="current"</cfif>><span>#Title#</span></a></li>
</cfoutput>
</ul>
</div>
Then I can style the DIV and LIST with CSS to look like whatever I want.
I hope that helps.
- Nick
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