Posts Tagged BuildUrl

Faster Development with Mach-II’s View Tag Library

Mach-II offers several tag libraries to aid in fast application development. The view tag library reduces the time spent in writing mundane or complicated code in your views.

A major headache that many developers experience when coding their Mach-II views is the fact that they end up writing and re-writing the same (or similar) complex code in order to output simple elements like anchor tags or alternating row colors in a list or table.

Luckily, since version 1.8, Mach-II offers the view tag library to not only help reduce the amount of code required in each view, but make the code easier to read and look cleaner.

Mach-II View Tag Library

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Search Engine Safe URLs with Mach-II

Mach-II provides a convenient way to create Search Engine Safe (SES) URLs for your web application without getting your hands dirty.

What are Search Engine Safe (SES) URLs anyway? Typical dynamic pages generated by server-side code require that either FORM or URL-scoped variables be provided in order to differentiate one dynamic page from another. A majority of these URLs look plain ugly: index.cfm?event=welcome&firstName=Adrian&lastName=Scott.

Wouldn’t it be a lot nicer if we got rid of the ?, =, and & symbols in favor of a more structured (and clean) method like: index.cfm/event/welcome/firstName/Adrian/lastName/Scott/. Not only are URLs like this easier to read and understand, but they supposedly also increase search engine optimization.

SEO Consultants – Search Engine Friendly URLs

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