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copied!<p>What you’re seeing is URL rewriting. This can be done within the web server, not necisarlay with in ColdFusion/PHP ext. What the web server will do is rewrite the url <code>mayoclinic.com/health/infant-jaundice/DS00107/DSECTION=symptoms</code> to a link something like: <code>mayoclinic.com/health/infant-jaundice/DS00107/index.cfm?DSECTION=symptoms</code>.</p> <p>For displaying the content with in the page, I would use as switch statment vs. using a series of if/else’s if you have more then 2-3 possible displays. You can use as many case blocks as needed.</p> <pre><code><cfswitch expression=”#url.DSECTION#> <cfcase value="symptoms">  </cfcase> <cfcase value="causes">  </cfcase> <cfdefaultcase>  </cfdefaultcase> </cfswitch> </code></pre> <p>This is a very simple example, to illustrate the idea of URL rewriting.</p> <p>Addition:</p> <blockquote> <p>I was wondering if perhaps they were using a database query rather than if/else statements?</p> </blockquote> <p>Yes you could.For a query driven results you could do something like:</p> <pre><code><cfquery name="pageContent" datasource="yourDatasource"> SELECT htmlText FROM pages WHERE page = 'dir/index.cfm' AND content <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="#url.DSECTION#"> </cfquery> <cfoutput>#pageContent.htmlText[1]#</cfoutput> </code></pre> <p>If the content is static, and rarely updated, another option would be to look into includes and try to leverage the ability to execute code based on the content.</p> <pre><code><cfinclude template="./includes/symtoms.cfm"> or <cfinclude template="./includes/#url.DSECTION#.cfm"> </code></pre>

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