Making the menu dynamic using cold fusion

[tubize]

I use Cold Fusion extensively on my site and do not know javascript.

Has anyone had any experience making the dhtml vertical menu dynamic by connecting it to a database using Cold Fusion. Besides changing the file suffix to .cfm from .js, what else do you have to do and what should one look out for or avoid?

Thanks.

[John]

Not that hard, actually. I haven't built a full-blown menu system under CF, but I do have a sub-menu pulling some system variables...

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with(milonic=new menuname("system")){	
style=XPMenuStyle;
borderwidth=1;
orientation="vertical";
bgimage="/sai/graphics/winxp_back.gif";
margin=4;
aI("text=Browser: <cfoutput>#cgi.http_user_agent#</cfoutput>;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
aI("text=Code Name: "+navigator.appCodeName+";url=#;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
aI("text=Color Depth: "+screen.colorDepth+" bit;url=#;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
aI("text=IP: <cfoutput>#cgi.remote_addr#</cfoutput>;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
aI("text=Language: "+navigator.browserLanguage+";url=#;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
aI("text=Platform: "+navigator.platform+";url=#;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
aI("text=Screen Max: "+screen.availWidth+"  x  "+screen.availHeight+";url=#;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
aI("text=Screen Resolution: "+screen.width+"  x  "+screen.height+";url=#;image=/sai/graphics/xpblank.gif;");
}

I think you can see the idea from this.

There are a lot of folks on the board running dynamic menus under PHP with no problems, so CF should be the same way. Try a search on PHP if you need to see what they're doing.

[tubize]

I have got a dynamic milonic working on my site. I have renamed the menu to .cfm from .js and you have to include it with the javascript include command and not <cfinclude>. I have one question, though.

I have a number of vertical menus on the site and all of them have the same top section describing the general properties. I was hoping that I could set these properties up in one file and include them in each menu with a javascript include but it looks like this does not work.

Does anyone know if there is a way to do this?

It does appear that you can place a javascript include after the menu properties and I guess that you could use a cfif statement to bring in the lower part of the menu but this is a little messier.