Empty Delimiter Error

Hey guys,

Was wondering if you could help? I was looking through the previous threads and found two related posts, but nothing that worked for me. My nav isn't linking properly when using relative nav links within the CSS Menu Writer because the plugin is placing a forward slash in front of my link (ex. /news.php). I'm running localhost off my machine using xampp and php. One of the posts mentioned leaving the variable value for the localRoot and remoteRoot references in the menu.php file empty, but when I do so it gives me an empty delimiter error on line 6 of the menu.php file. Is there a fix for this?

Thanks
Chris

can you send a link to your site where i can see the problem?

The links should be site relative, the forward slash is added at the start of the links to denote the site root.

The site is actually being hosted locally and I'm using my testing server so there is no live link currently, but is there a way to set the value of both the localRoot and remoteRoot to null or blank? The problem arises when I'm using them as blank because I don't need the "/" set in those values.

Thanks
Chris

If you upgrade to Design Extender it no longer uses the remote and local root variables at all.

In this version it needs to set the site relative link starting with a slash to work properly, since you may have the same menu on pages in different sub directories, it always uses a site relative link to function properly. Why is it that you don't wan to use the site relative location?

The navigation is only being used on pages that are within the site root, and unless I used it on a page within a sub directory for say maybe a cms or something they'll only need to be relative. Also, it's a pain not to be able to test the navigation locally before posting live. I really wish this plug in didn't behave in this manner. So, what you're saying is the navigation will not work until it's posted live? I wish I had known about this prior to purchasing this plug in with my Super Suite. The plug in barely functions as it should anyway. It took me three attempts to style and define my theme for the nav menu, before giving up and having it render half way complete, because the plug in kept crashing, and even still I had to go and customize the remaining three levels of my nav by hand. I might as well have coded the thing from scratch. Please forgive my frustration, but after having spent what I consider to be a lot of money on your suite of Dreamweaver plug ins I expect them to function better then they do, and don't think spending another $400 on Design Extender is an option for me.

It is designed to work with both a local testing and live server. It allows you to set both a local and remote root so they can be different.

If you have time I'd love to set up a screen sharing session so you can show me what you were trying to do and where it was failing for you so that we can try to correct those issues and get it working properly in the future.

Yeah I had seen that there was a local and remote value to be set, so I figured it could be tested locally, but then was also seeing people with the same issue complaining that local testing wasn't possible. I would love to sit down and try and resolve this with you through a screen sharing session, but my schedule wont permit me to till maybe Friday. Until then maybe I can take some screen shots of the error message I'm seeing and possibly my site definition and root structure. I should have them posted this evening, and then we can set a meet time for the remote assistance.

Thanks for the help.

Ok, we can take a look at this with you on Friday.

I will start a support incident so that we can share contact information and arrange for a time.