Newbie Question

Communities ColdBox HMVC
1

Using CB3 and I am building my handlers and want to create my
navigation using the event.buildLink, but how do I set the links
"name" that the user would click on.

In the default app document it is used like this:
<cfloop list="#getSetting("RegisteredHandlers")#" index="handler">
<li><a href="#event.buildLink(handler)#">#handler#</a></li>
</cfloop>

What would replace #handler# with so it would display "Contact Us" and
how would you set that value in the handler?

2

Don’t do it dynamically. Looping like that makes sense for that initial start page but, generally speaking, is not something you’d do yourself. You can just make a link yourself like:

<a href="#event.buildlink(“handler.contactus”)#">contact us

  • Gabriel
3

So what is 'best practice' in referencing assets (images, pdf's,
flash, etc.)?

4

Hmm. Best might be relative but some options are:

  1. Just include it in your page
  2. Decorate your request context to add them however you like (example 1 in the link)
  3. Use the coldbox HTML object to add them (example 2 in the link)

http://aarongreenlee.com/share/coldbox-resource-asset-management

  • Gabriel