Using Template Params with links

[buddyq]

Hi all, I was wondering how I could use a template parameters to change all links' prefix. For example all pages on my site will use relative paths to pages within the site. A few pages in the site are secure and therefore get directed to a "secure" server so the URL becomes different. Those pages cannot use relative URL's to get back to the 'normal', unsecured, site so they must use complete path " http://www.whatever.com/" in front of the links. I'm thinking I can make two template params like so:

<!-- TemplateParam name="rootSite" type="text" value=" http://www.whatever.com" -->
<!-- TemplateParam name="pageSecure" type="boolean" value="true" -->

but I some how need it to search through the document for all links and put the 'rootSite' inserted before whats already there. Can this be done??? If so, how?

Thanks in advance!

Buddy

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

I would make this -

<!-- TemplateParam name="rootSite" type="text"
value=" http://www.whatever.com"

be this -

<!-- TemplateParam name="rootSite" type="text"
value=" http://www.whatever.com/"


Find (in current document) -

<a href="

Replace with -

<a href="@@(rootSite)@@

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"buddyq" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all, I was wondering how I could use a template parameters to change
> all
> links' prefix. For example all pages on my site will use relative paths to
> pages within the site. A few pages in the site are secure and therefore
> get
> directed to a "secure" server so the URL becomes different. Those pages
> cannot
> use relative URL's to get back to the 'normal', unsecured, site so they
> must
> use complete path " http://www.whatever.com/" in front of the links. I'm
> thinking I can make two template params like so:
>
> <!-- TemplateParam name="rootSite" type="text"
> value=" http://www.whatever.com"
> -->
> <!-- TemplateParam name="pageSecure" type="boolean" value="true" -->
>
> but I some how need it to search through the document for all links and
> put
> the 'rootSite' inserted before whats already there. Can this be done??? If
> so,
> how?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Buddy
>

[buddyq]

I could do that but i'm looking for a solution that would automatically put that to use only IF the page is supposed to be 'secured'. I am trying to avoid having to do this on every link of the page to save time and be a little more dynamic should people in the future change, delete, or add links.

Buddy

[Newsgroup_User]

You could add a <base> tag to the head of the pages involved, which, now
that I think about it might be the very best way.

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"buddyq" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I could do that but i'm looking for a solution that would automatically put
> that to use only IF the page is supposed to be 'secured'. I am trying to
> avoid
> having to do this on every link of the page to save time and be a little
> more
> dynamic should people in the future change, delete, or add links.
>
> Buddy
>

[buddyq]

DOH! exactly! hahaha thanks. It's always the basics you forget when trying to use something else for the same task. Thanks.

For the sake of it all though: I am trying to do it your original way and I get an error when saving the template. It says "access to undefined template parameter "siteRoot". Any ideas why?

[buddyq]

Got it working with the template expression. I could not use the BASE tag after all since it changes the base for all images as well and nothing showed up on the test server. Thanks!


Buddy

[Newsgroup_User]

If the template parameter is defined on that page with the name "siteRoot",
then the reference to it will work.

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"buddyq" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> DOH! exactly! hahaha thanks. It's always the basics you forget when trying
> to
> use something else for the same task. Thanks.
>
> For the sake of it all though: I am trying to do it your original way and
> I
> get an error when saving the template. It says "access to undefined
> template
> parameter "siteRoot". Any ideas why?
>