You can also use a UDF to get relative paths to an absolute file path to call custom tags... Check out the Tapestry API in my sig or the getRelative() function from cflig.org
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=837 It's the same function... In Tapestry relative paths to these locations are cached in the application scope for efficiency (since they're not going to change... ever really), iirc the version of this function in the Tapestry API opensource project (in my sig) and on cflib.org uses the request scope which is a bit less efficient, but is done that way to avoid locking issues on CF5... If you're on cfmx you can just replace "request" with "application" and all should be well. :) I'd create an additional UDF to get a relative path to your custom tags directory like this: <cfscript> function tag(tagname) { return request.tapi.getRelative(request.customtagsdir & "/" & tagname); } </cfscript> Then calling a custom tag will look like this: <cfmodule template="#request.tapi.tag('mytag')#" blah blah... > If you put the tapi call in the application.cfm then you'll have this available to you in every template in your application, so unlike cfimport you won't have to keep initializing it in each template where you need it. This is how I've avoided using cfserver mappings or cfimport in my own applications and it's worked well for me thus far. hth s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 > Well in CFMX you can use cfimport to map a folder of tags > onto a prefix, > e.g. <stringlib:striphtml ... > . The downside is that it > has to be used at > the top of each file in which you want to use custom tags. > I think it's > still worth it though -- you get used to the lines of > cfimport tags. And it > encourages you to be a bit more organised about your > custom tags. > Another thing you can do is put the path to your tag > folder in a variable > e.g. "../../../../customtags/" then put that in the > cfmodule. Even better is > to note that generally all servers (even shared) will have > the "/" mapping > set up. You can use that to set a variable for the path > that will work from > any location within your site - you just need to know the > name of the folder > your site lives in (which you can get from > gettemplatepath() ). > Matthew Walker > Electric Sheep Web > http://www.electricsheep.co.nz/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:41 PM > Subject: Defining Custom tag Paths in Code >> Can it be done? >> >> Shared server model - trying to avoid sandbox/security >> issues with > multiple custom path mappings - can I define the custom > tag paths in code? > Anybody know the syntax off hand? >> >> Cheers >> Sean >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > 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 > This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by > CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion > Hosting. > http://www.cfhosting.com > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/uns > ubscribe.cfm?user=633.558.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
