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January 7, 2009
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reusable menu

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I want to develop a create once/deploy everywhere menu so that changes at one place will automatically update all of the web pages that use the menu.

The only way I know to do this is frames or server side includes. My supervisor does not want me to use frames and our company has eliminated support for SSI on our servers citing security issues.

Is there a way I can do this with ASP and a database? I use this all the time for delivery content to the page, but I had never tried it to create a menu.

If anyone can point me to a tutoprial (or even a COTS product) that would help me do this I would appreciate it.

- Tom
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January 7, 2009
> Is there a way I can do this with ASP and a database?

Yes, sure.

> If anyone can point me to a tutoprial (or even a COTS product) that would
> help
> me do this I would appreciate it.

I don't know of a tutorial, but it should be simple to concoct the process -

data table with two fields -

menuText
menuLink

Repeat region to cycle through the recordset printing the text to the page
and wrapping it with the link.

It gets more complex for a fly-out or drop-down, but should be not so hard
to incorporate a level field into the table that specifies the 'tree' of the
menu.

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"TomHuffman" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I want to develop a create once/deploy everywhere menu so that changes at
>one
> place will automatically update all of the web pages that use the menu.
>
> The only way I know to do this is frames or server side includes. My
> supervisor does not want me to use frames and our company has eliminated
> support for SSI on our servers citing security issues.
>
> Is there a way I can do this with ASP and a database? I use this all the
> time
> for delivery content to the page, but I had never tried it to create a
> menu.
>
> If anyone can point me to a tutoprial (or even a COTS product) that would
> help
> me do this I would appreciate it.
>
> - Tom
>