dynamic master page content

S

samuelberthelot

Hi,
In one of my database's tables I have a Header and Footer field, which
content is used to create the header and footer of my Master page.


Part generated from Header field:
<html >
<head >
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>

<body>

That's the usual hardcoded content part of the Master Page:
<asp:contentplaceholder id="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">

and finally the part generated from the Footer field:
</body>
</html>

How can I build the header and footer of my Master page by reading the
content of my datasource ??

Thank you
 
G

Guest

Sam,
You'll need to modify your application to not use the header and footer from
your database. Let asp.net render the <head> <html> <body> tags. You can
change the page title with page.title="hello world" . You can add your meta
tags to the head element in the masterpage with a usercontrol.

Good Luck
DWS
 
S

samuelberthelot

Well it's the way the whole system work, i'm afraid i can't change that
and i'm not the one who has designed this.
Actually I've managed to achieve this:

In the code-behind of my master page, if it's not a PostBack, I read
the header an footer from database and store them in two session
variable. I write them using response.write and the page is built
correctely. Only issue I have is with .css, mentionned in another post
of mine.
 
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Alan Silver

Well it's the way the whole system work, i'm afraid i can't change that
and i'm not the one who has designed this.
Click to expand...

Well, it might be worth speaking to whoever did design it and explaining
that it's not a very good solution.
Actually I've managed to achieve this:

In the code-behind of my master page, if it's not a PostBack, I read
the header an footer from database and store them in two session
variable. I write them using response.write and the page is built
correctely.
Click to expand...

What happens when the session runs out? Say someone loads a page, then
goes for a cup of tea, comes back after the session has expired and
submits the page? Your session variable will be empty, but you only
populate it on postback, so your header and footer will not appear.

BY the way, using response.write is not a recommended way to build pages
anymore. It was fine in classic ASP, but there are much better ways in
ASP.NET.
Only issue I have is with .css, mentionned in another post
of mine.
Click to expand...

I suspect you will find bigger issues than that as time goes on unless
you rethink your approach. You are going about things in a very "classic
ASP" way, not a recipe for success.

I would rethink this very carefully before proceeding. You should only
store the header and footer *content* (eg, page title, meta keywords,
etc) in the database, and *not* the tags. HTML should be left for the
pages themselves.

HTH
 

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