You've got a site. You've got content in the root. (index.cfm, let's say) and you've got content in directories lower than the root (foo/content.cfm). Let's say that you want "index.cfm" and "foo/content.cfm" to share the same navigation as an include, naturally, because you only want to change one copy of "include/navigation.cfm" and it will be updated in every page of the site.
But how do you resolve directory path problems? In "index.cfm", the navigation include (this code is in "include/navigation.cfm" remember) refers to "images/image.jpg" which works in the root index.cfm file...however, when you refer to this include in "foo/content.cfm" it needs to instead refer to "../images/image.jpg". How to resolve this? How do you work on this locally, with includes, and set it up to mirror your development site, so all you need to do is push it over and it's live and working? Our development server is just a smallish, in-house box that we use like this, "testing.mydomain.com/client1/" and "testing.mydomain.com/another_client/" and we're using relative paths in development. It wasn't such a big problem until recently when we've just sort of grown out of a mom and pop solution to development and have begun to try and implement firmer coding methods and procedures. So we're stumbling trying to figure out a solution besides "make a second copy of navigation.cfm so that the paths work when it's one directory lower" etc... We're trying to figure out if Dreamweaver Templates can figure into the mix somehow, giving us locked regions that can change depending on where you save the file, then just edit the template to apply global changes to a navigation, etc...but that doesn't *seem* to be working out very well...Although one of the guys in the office just shouted that he thinks "Nesting templates" might work... I just was wondering how you all are managing this kind of development thing where you want to create includes and minimize coding, but have to make paths in those includes work properly, no matter where they are in your site... Does this make sense what I'm asking? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188399 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
