As with all busy professionals it's sometimes hard to keep up with the
list(s), so if this has been done, let me know.
It's my preference to run all of a site's hyper links through the root index
file and not the fuse folder's index file. I know other's don't and that's
cool.
An example of one of my general folder structures:
Root Folder (Application Name)
Fuses Folder
Globals Folder
application.cfm
index.cfm
In the Fuses Folder:
Users Folder
Products Folder
Menu Folder
The problem I would encounter in the index file is keeping track of which
fuse a fuseaction belonged.
Example:
index.cfm?fa=add is that add a user or a product? So I instead I'd code
fa=addUser, which helped but it still wasn't always clear. Another way that
sort of helped was index.cfm?circuit=products&fa=add.
Now I'm testing another method I'd encourage feedback on:
Example: index.cfm?fusePath=products.add (this is web safe for IE, I have
to test it on older browsers, a pipe might have to be use instead of a dot)
The first part is the name of the fuse and the second part is the
fuseAction.
The index file now reads:
<cfparam name="attributes.fusePath" default="">
<!--- extract the fuse FIRST --->
<cfswitch expression="#ListFirst(attributes.fusePath, '.')#">
<cfcase value="products">
<!--- extract the fuseaction --->
<cfswitch expression="#ListLast(attributes.fusePath, '.')#">
<cfcase value="add">
<cfinclude template="">
</cfcase>
</cfswitch>
</cfcase>
</cfswitch>
Nested Fuses (or circuits) Helped:
If you wanted to do something like products.specials.add or
products.limitedtime.toys.add after you've implemented the products.add, no
problem. The ListFirst and the ListLast let's you add nested circuits/fuses
easily. All you have to do now is nest the cfswitch and use ListGetAt to
exact the nested circuits/fuses name.
Last thought:
To avoid coding the fuse path for each link, set it in the app_local file
and then index.cfm?fusePath=#request.localFusePath#.add
Rick
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