You could do that with a very simple flag. <cfset ImThisSection="About"> <cfinclude template="navigation.cfm">
Then in the navigtion, you would do something based on the value of ImThisSection. And if you put a <cfparam> into the navigation file, you could have a default behavior of not other value is passed in. This of course could also be handled with <cfelse> or <cfdefalutcase> depending on how you want to code it, but I think that gives you the idea. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource Sacramento, CA -----Original Message----- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Context Sensitive, dynamic navigation include? How to accomplish? on 6/3/03 11:20 AM, Howard Fore at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003, at 10:31 US/Eastern, Jeff wrote: > >> Any ideas? > > In the past I've done this with a single page with all the navigation. > It cfswitches to display the appropriate parts based on a variable set > in the page that included it. > > As for the application.cfm execution, I think it will only execute once > per "request" not per include. For instance, if you had a page that > ended in a cflocation to another page, the application.cfm would > execute twice. However a page that includes another will only execute > application.cfm once. I think cfmodule would fall in the same category > as cfinclude. Hmmmm...application.cfm running only once *might* provide a workable solution to this. Is it possible to determine the calling page for an include somehow? In other words, if the page that was calling the navigation include were in a particular directory, or even began with a particular string (about_history.cfm, about_index.cfm, contact_info.cfm, contact_form.cfm) then I *might* envision some way to determine that and use it to my advantage... But like I said, I'm in the early stages of just figuring out if I can even DO it, and it's mainly for an estimate for time. I figure with the amount of pages this site will contain, if I could do a dynamic navigation, that would shave hours as compared to creating several "versions" of the navigation, which just talking about gives me the willies, not to mention just *sounds* wrong. Lol. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
