Tree structured Web Site

[macr0]

Does anyone know the best way to create a tree like web site? For exampe: Amazon.com Like<br><br>Books &gt; Horror &gt; Authors, A-Z &gt; ( K ) &gt; King, Stephen &gt; Riding the Bullet <br><br>and being able to click the subheadings back up to the main page? <br><br>I have been able to create links to the default.asp for each section using virtual directories and some string manipulation. However, I am having problems creating the &quot;header titles.&quot; One option I have went over is using FSO and textstream objects to search each page for the &lt;title&gt;Books&lt;/title&gt; or a special comment to get the thing to display. However, the overhead is huge and it would not work as a scalable solution. I cannot install custom components on my server unfortunately.&nbsp;&nbsp;Is there a way to do this using a database without having some special mechanism to add new files into the right place? This is a pretty hard problem for me. Any ideas at ALL would be helpful.<br><br>Thanks<br>JLowery

 

[marshalsea]

You need to add them as Hyperlinks, which need to uniquely identify the item. Use the Querystring items to stuff this information into. This could be a single Unique ID, so you can go and identify the item in the database, or a collection of values that help navigate.<br><br>Each table will need to be able to Identify it's parent link as well...<br><br>Structurely it's a pain in the rear, and Administration will be an absolute nightmare unless you get it just right.<br><br>Paging - like at the bottom of the main page in this forum, is really easy. Pass the querystring item of &CurrPage=1 etc... that way you can consult the database for item 1-25.<br>(assuming you want 25 items returned) if it's &CurrPage=3 you know you need to get items 75-100... therefore build next/previous items to include the &CurrPage=4/&CurrPage=3<br><br>Of course you should check that there is enough information to go upto that level before you offer the next/previous buttons! <p>Ben Marshalsea<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>