> The question I will ask: How do I accomplish this with fusebox? or
without?
>
you can do this fairly easily with Fusebox . This is how we handled the
issue of multi-sites that use the same Action pages but different Display
pages. Prime example would be when you wanted different layout for what was
essentially the same site. It also works for multi-language sites, although
in my heart I believe Noam's approach to multilinguism is the better way to
do it. But our way is faster :) a lot faster. Like maybe 5-10 minutes of
work for each additional site :) (other than translating if that is
involved)
you set up core Fusebox items in the same place you would normally for the
site. The Action pages all go in another CF-mapped directory, probably using
the same directory structure unless the site is *very* small) and the
Display pages go to *another* CF-mapped directory as well. We happen to use
a sub-dir of the core Fusebox, which means no mapping would be needed,
called /DSPfiles and we have sub-dirs for /English, /French, etc. This
allows you have one one site where the user can switch which language he
wants to see it in as a SESSION variable
Then all your index.cfm files point to files like <cfinclude
template="#application.Path_to_ACTfiles#/act_youractfile.cfm"> and similarly
for DSP files
The APP variable (uh, I think the current technique is to use REQUEST scope
now) is set in a file much like app_globals.cfm which we call
app_configuration.cfm (called inside app_global.cfm) which sets all the
particulars for a given instance of the app (ie which style, or which
co-brand or which language etc.). IF you choose a variant of all this where
the core Fusebox can be in their own separate DIR's you can still use the
technique for the ACT files and can choose (or not) to separate off the DSP.
I've found that it is better to separate them off anyway, since then you can
always expand to multiple languages (etc) on-the-fly later on. Further if
you get "used to" the separation, you can always bring everything back in
together later on for whatever reason because you've kept the same DIR
structure...and it also becomes easier to pass off DSP and only DSP files to
a Designer or a Translator
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