Thanks Jeremy. I really appreciate your taking the time to explain;
this is actually a pretty important topic. I think I'm not fully
'getting it' though. I must misunderstand something fundamental
here. One has to create a template/file for every single database
record? That can't work -- there could be a bazillion records,
thousands, even millions -- and the client is who adds/edits them, so
this could increase every minute, and it's not like I'd be there to
make a new blank template for every single record the client chooses
to add, each minute.
I have a site I made which is "semi-dynamic" (www.parapsychology.org)
-- I made static mostly-empty pages for everything, the nav uses IF-
based includes and the content of each page is pulled from a table.
I did it because I figured that would work with search engines (at
least, the ones that accept .cfm file extensions).
But it was a royal pain in the you-know-what, took vastly more work
than a simple but 100% dynamic, client-expandable site (such as
www.ehe.org) did -- and every time they want a new page, I have to
make it, which to me is the opposite logic (IMO my job has always
been to obsolete the need for myself so I can move on to better
things). I mean, I could stick to my simple old-fashioned html sites
(www.espresearch.com) if I wanted to have to create every bleepin'
page, but I don't want to be a secretary!
So in this 'template not found' scenario you discuss, say you set it
up today, and the client dumps in tons of data from all over the site
(in many different tables) tomorrow. Do you have to do something
else?
I guess what I keep praying for is a way to code it so that it just
works -- code it once and have it work, period, without having to
"keep up" with pages-per-record or entries-per-record or whatever.
Unless there is a way to make it so that every new record entered
generates an entry in some log that functions as an include inside a
redirect script -- er, I'm getting lost now.... :-)
Regards,
Palyne
Jeremy Ridout wrote:
> Actually, the missing template handler (MTH) works very well. [...]
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