Includes with querystrings

[ccsimmons]

I need to include 3 files that have grabbed database info using a parameter
passed in their querystrings. I keep getting a 'file not found' error when I
do the include with a querystring like so:

<cfinclude template="Part1.cfm?dbid=100">
<cfinclude template="Part2.cfm?dbid=100">
<cfinclude template="Part3Local.cfm?dbid=100">

Is there another way to do this?

[Adam Cameron]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:17:51 +0000 (UTC), ccsimmons wrote:

> I need to include 3 files that have grabbed database info using a parameter
> passed in their querystrings. I keep getting a 'file not found' error when I
> do the include with a querystring like so:
>
> <cfinclude template="Part1.cfm?dbid=100">

You don't need or want a querystring when you're including a file. A query
string is for an HTTP request. <cfinclude> doesn't perform its own HTTP
request, it simply includes (big hint there) the contents of the included
file into the including file (*).

Just set the variables in the including file, and use them in the included
file.

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Adam

(*) It's not quite that straight forward or transparent, but for the
purposes of this question, that's what it does.

[cf_menace]

Alternately, you can use <cfmodule> to "include" the file:

<cfmodule template="Part1.cfm" dbid="100">

Just know that using <cfmodule> is like calling a custom tag. Therefore in
"Part1.cfm", you'd have to check for attributes.dbid instead of url.dbid

HTH