Just a nit-pick (and no answer to what is going wrong) - but you dont need
the ## around the URL.include in the way you have used it.  They are only
required when you want CF to expand the contents of a variable in
<CFOUTPUT></CFOUTPUT> or inside quotes.

And yes - as has already been suggested, you cant set the value of the
URL.include at the top of your file or it overrides it.

Use <CFPARAM> instead.

You may also want to think about doing it this way......

<CFPARAM name="URL.include" default="news_links">

<CFINCLUDE template="includes/#URL.include#.cfm">

Then you wont have to constantly edit your <CFIF> cluster if you add more
options for the "include" portion.

Of course, if you pass something that does not exist then you will get an
error.  So you could do a <CFIF> to check that the file exists and
complain with an error if it doesn't - otherwise <CFINCLUDE> it.


Gary Menzel
IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/20/2003 10:49:20 AM:

> Hi all,
>
> Trying to get my head around dynamic includes.
>
> I've got my index.cfm page which holds a few includes. One of those is
our
> "news.cfm". Now I want to replace my "news.cfm" when a graphic link is
> clicked to then include our "custOps_shout.cfm"
>
> So my graphic link is <a href="../index.cfm?include=custOps_shout">Click
> here</a>
>
> I'm starting out like so:
>
> <cfset #URL.include# = "">
>
> <cfif #URL.include# IS "custOps_shout">
> <cfinclude template="includes/custOps_shout.cfm">
> <cfelse>
> <cfinclude template="includes/news_links.cfm">
> </cfif>
>
> I get no errors but the custOps_shout file won't render?? I do a dump of
the
> URL variables and I get an empty string?? Why??
>
> If I remove the <cfset> I get the usual URL element is undefined error,
so I
> need something in this page before the link is clicked to declare
> URL.include is nothing.
>
> How do I get around this??
>
>
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