cfinclude and defaulting...

lockmac

Hi. I am creating a website in coldfusion and i have a main page that has a cfinclude and includes whatever was passed on in the url.p

example..

say the adress was about.cfm?p=julie

then in the about.cfm, the cfinclude will include julie.cfm (i have .cfm after the #url.p#)

What i would like to know is how to i make it default to include a certain page if their is no parameter passed on (such as it might be about.cfm?p or it might just be a direct link to the page such as about.cfm)?

many thanks

uday

tell me what u want exactly. (i have .cfm after the #url.p#).

lockmac

what do you mean?

what i want is this.... if i go to resourc.cfm and dont have any variables attached, i want my cfinclude to include "main.cfm" but if i go to resource.cfm?p=sub, i want it to include sub.cfm.

i have it setup to include the argument that i sent through as a parameter but i just dont know how to do it so if their is no argument sent, that it will include a default page

uday

Hey mac it is very easy. Just check what is parameter value or either p is defined or not
for example-
<cfif isdefined("p") and p eq 'julie'>
<cfinclude template="required template.cfm">
<cfelse>
<cfinclude template="default template.cfm">
</cfif>

try it

best of luck