I have definitely had feedback from clients and such
non-coding types that they would prefer to have
www.website.com/products/index.cfm?fuseaction=list
to www.website.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=products.list
and that they would ultimately prefer to see
www.website.com/products/list.cfm?yadda or even
.....products/list.cfm with no ?yadda. Why is this?
two reasons..
1. to a non-programmer, everything after the ? is
affectionately known as "gobbledygook" and hence is
ignored because it has no meaning.
2. from our client's perspective it is more
conventient to tell a customer or client check out the
investor information on our website at
www.oursite.com/investors than to tell them to go to
www.oursite.com and click on investors on the menu at
the top of the page (which they will need help
finding).
I prefer to route all page calls through a central
index.. but the customers want multiple directories.
I have not tried this yet, but what if we structure
our site like
/fbsite/ - put the whole fusebox site here, out of the
webroot.
/website/ - put a bunch of mostly blank files here
and then maybe even have the fuseminder script or
something similar that works off an already-written
set of index.cfm files create a bunch of
sub-directories and (all but) blank cfm files off the
/website/ directory, which is where the domain would
be mapped to.
Then have an application.cfm file in the /website/
directory that uses the extra directories and filename
as the fuseaction, with something like the following:
<cfscript>
url_website="www.StanCoxRocks.com";
cfPathToFBSite="/fbsite/";
extradir=right(cgi.path_info,len(cgi.path_info)-len(url_webapproot));
if(len(extradir)){
fa=replace(extradir,".cfm","");
fa=replace(fa,"/",".","all");
if(right(fa,1) is "."){
fa=left(fa,len(fa)-1);
}
attributes.fuseaction=fa;
}
</cfscript>
<!--- call the fusebox site --->
<cfinclude template="#cfPathToFBSite#index.cfm">
<cfabort>
We would have to do something similar for links and
cflocations to keep this formatting throughout a
client's visit to the site. When 5.0 arrives we could
make a udf.
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Ken Beard
cfug manager
Tampa, FL
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