Building a Simple ColdFusion Content Management System with MySQL - The Page and how to Update/Modify and Delete
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We will now start writing some code to display a page and also to modify add and delete pages. I am going to write the code so that you can put it within the body tags and the entire piece is going to be located on the same page. Let's start out with the CFIF statement that is going to control the whole page. We are also going to set a variable that will specify your data source.
<cfset data = "YourDataSource">
<cfif isdefined("url.mod") or isdefined("url.add")>
<cfelseif isdefined("form.modify")>
<cfelseif isdefined("url.delete")>
<cfelseif isdefined("form.add")>
<cfelse>
</cfif>
So this is the flow of the program. If nothing is specified it is just going to load the page (the CFELSE). But if you are going to add, modify or delete, it will look at that specific area. The way we are going to create the hierarchy is that when you are adding a page, you have to select the add link from the page you want to create the child page off of. For example if you had a page on "building a bird house" and you wanted to create a child page off of it for materials, you would have to go to the "build a bird house" page then click on the add link. What this does is it provides the form with the ID of the parent page so that you can insert it into the PARENTID field.
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So let's build the CFELSE part (view the page). The first part will be the CFQUERY that will query out the record you are requesting (url.id). The below code is going to set a CFPARAM so that if the page is requested without a URL.ID it will load the home page.
<cfparam name="url.id" default="1">
<cfquery name="getpage" datasource="#variables.data#">
Select *
From tblpages
where id = #url.id# and status = 'A'
</cfquery>
<cfoutput>
#getpage.body#
</cfoutput>
<!--- Page/Site administration --->
<div align="center">
<!--- put an if statement around this cfoutput to see if
you are logged in. --->
<cfoutput>
<a href="page.cfm?mod=#getpage.id#" target="_self">Modify</a> |
<a href="page.cfm?add=#getpage.id#" target="_self">Add</a> | <a href="page.cfm?del=#getpage.id#" target="_self" onclick="return
confirm('Do you really want to Delete this?')">Delete</a>
</cfoutput>
</div>
The only variable you are outputting is the BODY field from the query. This is a Text field that holds all the words and HTML that makes up your page. The next section is for page/site administration. There will be three links at the bottom of the page.
The Modify link is to modify the existing page you are on.
The Add page is to add a child page off of the current page.
The Delete link is to delete the current page.
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