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Asked: 2026-05-27T21:53:09+00:00

I am using ColdFusion 9.0.1. I have a new web site that uses Bikes.cfm

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I am using ColdFusion 9.0.1.

I have a new web site that uses Bikes.cfm and Makers.cfm as template pages. I need to be able to pass BikeID and MakerID to both of the these pages, along with other variables. I don’t want to use the Actual page name in the URL, such as this:

MyDomain.com/Bikes.cfm?BikeID=1234&MakerID=1234

I want my URL to look more like this:

MyDomain.com/?BikeID=1234&MakerID=1234

I need to NOT specify the page name in the URL.

I want these two URLs to access different data:

MyDomain.com/?BikeID=1234&MakerID=1234 // goes to bike page
MyDomain.com/?MakerID=1234&BikeID=1234 // goes to maker page

So, if BikeID appears in the URL before MakerID, go to the Bikes.cfm page. If MakerID appears before BikeID, go the Makers.cfm page.

Is there an easy and existing method to arrange the URL keys in such a way to have them point to the appropriate page?

Should I just parse the the URL as a list and determine the first ID and go to the appropriate page? Is there a better way?

Any thoughts or hints or ideas would be appreciated.

UPDATE — It certainly appears that using the order of parameters in a URL is a bad idea for the following reasons:

1) many programs append variables to the URL
2) some programs may reorder the variables
3) GoogleBot may not consider order relevant and will most likely not index the site correctly.

Thanks to everyone who provided advice in a positive manner that my approach was probably a bad idea and would not produce the results I wanted. Thanks to everyone who suggested alternate means to produce the results I wanted.

If anyone of you positive people would like to put your positive comment/advice as an answer, I’d be happy to accept it as the answer.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Despite my grave misgivings about the whole idea, here’s how I would do it if I were forced to do so:

    index.cfm:

    <cfswitch expression="#ListFirst(cgi.query_string, '=')#">

  <cfcase value="BikeID">
     <cfinclude template="Bikes.cfm">
  </cfcase>

  <cfcase value="MakerID">
     <cfinclude template="Makers.cfm">
  </cfcase>

  <cfdefaultcase>
     <cfinclude template="Welcome.cfm">
  </cfdefaultcase>

</cfswitch>
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