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I used this tutorial in order to create SE Friendly Url's

My menu is in a shared directory since It will grow over time and is included in all pages using <cfmodule

I have added this code:

<cfscript>
   debug = 0;
   valid_extensions = "html,htm,cfm,asp,jsp";
   url_suffix = ".html";
   path_to_parse = replacenocase(cgi.path_info, cgi.script_name, "");
   if (listlen(path_to_parse, "/") gte 2) {
      var_name = "";
      for (x = 1; x lte listlen(path_to_parse, "/"); x = x + 1) {
      if (var_name eq "") {
         var_name = trim(listgetat(path_to_parse, x, "/"));
         if (not refind("^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*$", var_name)) {
            var_name = "";
            x = x + 1;
         }
      }
      else {
           value_to_set = listgetat(path_to_parse, x, "/");
           if (trim(valid_extensions) neq "" and x eq listlen(path_to_parse, "/")) {
               for (ext = 1; ext lte listlen(valid_extensions); ext = ext + 1) {
                     extension = "." & listgetat(valid_extensions, ext);
                     if (right(value_to_set, len(extension)) eq extension) {
                          value_to_set = left(value_to_set, len(value_to_set) - len(extension));
                          url_suffix = extension;
                          break;
                     }
            }
      }
  setvariable(var_name, value_to_set);
  if (isdefined("debug") and debug) {
     writeoutput("" & chr(10));
  }
  var_name = "";
  }
}
}
</cfscript>

to my Application.cfm, as explained in the tutorial but It isn't working. What am I doing wrong or is it because of my menu beeing in a different directory. This is the link structure for one of the menu items:

          <ul class="sub">
        <cfoutput query="getTypes">
               <li><a href="properties.cfm?type=#property_type_id#">#property_type_name#</a></li>
          </cfoutput>
          </ul>

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07-26-2010 @ 11:42 AM

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the code doesnt do the url replacing for you; it just interprets it.

<li><a href="properties.cfm?type=#property_type_id#">#property_type_name#</a></li>

needs to be:

<li><a href="/properties.cfm/type/#property_type_id#">#property_type_name#</a></li>

Notice that I put a "/" at the beginning (so you need to make them all virtual from the root) and also changed it to be /type/#var#.

Give that a try and let me know.

Pablo

Pablo Varando

Senior Application Architect
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donboe

07-30-2010 @ 9:26 AM

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Thank you Pablo, works great

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shannanrohde

08-02-2010 @ 7:40 AM

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Joined: Sep 2006

Does this also work for Coldfusion mx7?

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08-02-2010 @ 4:31 PM