Busy — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:24:25 +0000

dang!
Maybe you should try talk them in to a rebuild - database driven

10 k to maintain for next 2 years or
5k to build db and 2k to maintain for 2 yrs

money talks

r3a1 — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:46:53 +0000

Ok, after reading more carefully I think I see where we are missing each other. I have no way of making a DB query to get such information. Believe me I think that the fact that there is no type of CMS, or even some use of a DB used is a terrible idea. The fact is that it simply wasn't up to me. I can see how if I could hit a DB then I could use that information in it to get such variables, but I dont have access to one.

The only technologies I have access to is any client side scripting as usual which really doesn't apply here and ASP (no database associated with it).

Believe me when you are thinking how/why would anyone have a site that large that isn't DB driven I was thinking the exact same thing. I still don't have an answer other than money, which is laughable considering how much time (which is money) they would save managing this beast later.

Busy — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:39:11 +0000

But wont the structure remain the same or similar on all servers?
Even if they aren't using the variable method is just one adjustment to suit anywhere

r3a1 — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:38:53 +0000

Well I thought about using a variable as you noted below, but I didn't think that would work because of the four different servers the page could reside on.

Quote: $url_or_root directory/filename

where I was thinking the possibilities would be something like
http://64.25.XX.XX/filename
http://64.26.XX.XX/filename
http://64.27.XX.XX/filename
http://64.28.XX.XX/filename

So my variation of your solution was to keep a file with the server names listed in each directory so I could compare the current location to the url's of the servers thus determining where I was in the directory tree so that I have the reference that you noted. Am I way off base on this and will your solution work? or does the complication of the four server indeed make my problem a bit outside the scope of your solution?

Busy — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:29:39 +0000

I did a big site with many levels and the old ./ or ../ wasn't working so I just used a folder at root level for all includes and templates and used a set variable in each include
include $url_or_root directory/filename
editing a structure is easy as you'd just change one varaible and everything still works

No doubt with that many pages you'd be using a database so youd be using one file to keep the databsae query in, this breadcrumb etc can live in there