Comments on: Coldfusion Image Rotator http://www.dingobytes.com/coldfusion/coldfusion-image-rotator what your nephew can't make you Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:31:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.dingobytes.com/coldfusion/coldfusion-image-rotator/comment-page-1#comment-1786 admin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:08:45 +0000 http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/03/03/coldfusion-image-rotator/#comment-1786 Had to check the ColdFusion documentation before I responded but the documentation confirmed what I thought. You need to use the absolute path for the CFDirectory tag. That said, I might have a possible solution for you. I was using two different operating systems for my developement and host. I kept a variable in the Application.cfm that defined the absolute path to the web root. I had one application file for the development environment and one for the live environment. The development.Application.cfm file had <cfset basePath = "/var/www/html" /> while the live.Application.cfm had <cfset basePath = "/home/mySite/public_html" /> Using this basePath variable you can save your absolute path using something like this: <cfset folder = "#basePath#/path/to/my/images/" /> <cfdirectory directory="#folder#" action="list" name="filelisting" /> Hope that works for you. Had to check the ColdFusion documentation before I responded but the documentation confirmed what I thought. You need to use the absolute path for the CFDirectory tag.

That said, I might have a possible solution for you. I was using two different operating systems for my developement and host. I kept a variable in the Application.cfm that defined the absolute path to the web root. I had one application file for the development environment and one for the live environment. The development.Application.cfm file had <cfset basePath = “/var/www/html” /> while the live.Application.cfm had <cfset basePath = “/home/mySite/public_html” />

Using this basePath variable you can save your absolute path using something like this:

<cfset folder = “#basePath#/path/to/my/images/” />
<cfdirectory directory=”#folder#” action=”list” name=”filelisting” />

Hope that works for you.

]]> By: Brian http://www.dingobytes.com/coldfusion/coldfusion-image-rotator/comment-page-1#comment-1782 Brian Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:14 +0000 http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/03/03/coldfusion-image-rotator/#comment-1782 Hey Andrew, That's a very nice script - just what I was looking for this morning. Apparently, I suck at Flash programming and your script came as the savior. Just one question though: Since my code resides on two machines - my own computer where all the code is developed and the server where the website is actually hosted, would it not be easier to set the variable folder using a relative path rather than an absolute path?? I tried using a relative path for that variable and it doesn't seem to work. What am I missing here?? Thanks in advance! Hey Andrew,

That’s a very nice script – just what I was looking for this morning. Apparently, I suck at Flash programming and your script came as the savior. Just one question though:

Since my code resides on two machines – my own computer where all the code is developed and the server where the website is actually hosted, would it not be easier to set the variable folder using a relative path rather than an absolute path??

I tried using a relative path for that variable and it doesn’t seem to work. What am I missing here??

Thanks in advance!

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