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Heyya,
Whilst working at other stuff this summer, my boss wanted me to fix some stuff
on a certain (small)website associated with my work. Sure, I thought, not
knowing the site was built pretty much entirely in CF. Anyways, I thought I'd
give it a shot so I've been reading the code and googling/trying to figure out
how the stuff works.
The thing I'm trying to do is add a little function which switches the site's
language back and forth with links on the main page. I began thinking that
using a variable that could be changed could work. So i pretty much defined a
variable in application.cfm (lets call it "language") and did cfif's which
compares "language" to a string, around two versions of the header (just the
header to begin with).
So, that works fine while manually changing the "language" variable in the
code of application.cfm. What I just can't figure out is how I can make a link
on the site, when clicked, change that variable to a specified string. Because
it feels like, if I could do that, then it would work. When I've attempted to
write code for this, it seems as you can't directly change a variable in
application.cfm from the browser-side, true?
I then thought, "ok, then I make a 'switchlang.cfm' and write some code
changing the variable". Here is pretty much where I got stuck, as my half-assed
attempts didn't get me anywhere.
So please, please help me with this. Any pointers, solutions is most welcome.
Am I going about this in a totally wrong way? I'm just looking for an easy
solution that works.
Please go easy on me, I just saw CF code a couple of weeks ago, so I may have
written some major "wrongs", i know...:)
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