Defining Custom tag Paths in Code
If I understand your question correctly, that is, to let all applications under one server access the same custom tag / module, then, use DOT NOTATION to call the module is the way to go, for instance, cfmodule name=UtilityComponents.utility Attributes.A=1 Attributes.B='abc' ... (where UtilityComponents is a directory under CustomTags directory of your CF|CFMX installation). Li, Chunshen (Don) Baltimore, MD http://68.32.61.40/datadata/dataman.cfm ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Defining Custom tag Paths in Code
Can it be done? Shared server model - trying to avoid sandbox/security issues with multiple custom path mappings - can I define the custom tag paths in code? Anybody know the syntax off hand? Cheers Sean ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Defining Custom tag Paths in Code
Shared server model Any specific reason for avoiding cfmodule or, with CF MX, cfimport? Massimo Foti Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer http://www.massimocorner.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Defining Custom tag Paths in Code
Well in CFMX you can use cfimport to map a folder of tags onto a prefix, e.g. stringlib:striphtml ... . The downside is that it has to be used at the top of each file in which you want to use custom tags. I think it's still worth it though -- you get used to the lines of cfimport tags. And it encourages you to be a bit more organised about your custom tags. Another thing you can do is put the path to your tag folder in a variable e.g. ../../../../customtags/ then put that in the cfmodule. Even better is to note that generally all servers (even shared) will have the / mapping set up. You can use that to set a variable for the path that will work from any location within your site - you just need to know the name of the folder your site lives in (which you can get from gettemplatepath() ). Matthew Walker Electric Sheep Web http://www.electricsheep.co.nz/ - Original Message - From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: Defining Custom tag Paths in Code Can it be done? Shared server model - trying to avoid sandbox/security issues with multiple custom path mappings - can I define the custom tag paths in code? Anybody know the syntax off hand? Cheers Sean ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Defining Custom tag Paths in Code
You can also use a UDF to get relative paths to an absolute file path to call custom
tags... Check out the Tapestry API in my sig or the getRelative() function from
cflig.org
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=837
It's the same function... In Tapestry relative paths to these locations are cached in
the application scope for efficiency (since they're not going to change... ever
really), iirc the version of this function in the Tapestry API opensource project (in
my sig) and on cflib.org uses the request scope which is a bit less efficient, but is
done that way to avoid locking issues on CF5... If you're on cfmx you can just replace
request with application and all should be well. :)
I'd create an additional UDF to get a relative path to your custom tags directory like
this:
cfscript
function tag(tagname) {
return request.tapi.getRelative(request.customtagsdir / tagname);
}
/cfscript
Then calling a custom tag will look like this:
cfmodule template=#request.tapi.tag('mytag')# blah blah...
If you put the tapi call in the application.cfm then you'll have this available to you
in every template in your application, so unlike cfimport you won't have to keep
initializing it in each template where you need it.
This is how I've avoided using cfserver mappings or cfimport in my own applications
and it's worked well for me thus far.
hth
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Well in CFMX you can use cfimport to map a folder of tags
onto a prefix,
e.g. stringlib:striphtml ... . The downside is that it
has to be used at
the top of each file in which you want to use custom tags.
I think it's
still worth it though -- you get used to the lines of
cfimport tags. And it
encourages you to be a bit more organised about your
custom tags.
Another thing you can do is put the path to your tag
folder in a variable
e.g. ../../../../customtags/ then put that in the
cfmodule. Even better is
to note that generally all servers (even shared) will have
the / mapping
set up. You can use that to set a variable for the path
that will work from
any location within your site - you just need to know the
name of the folder
your site lives in (which you can get from
gettemplatepath() ).
Matthew Walker
Electric Sheep Web
http://www.electricsheep.co.nz/
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From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: Defining Custom tag Paths in Code
Can it be done?
Shared server model - trying to avoid sandbox/security
issues with
multiple custom path mappings - can I define the custom
tag paths in code?
Anybody know the syntax off hand?
Cheers
Sean
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