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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By : John Farrar
Book Image

ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By: John Farrar

Overview of this book

Adobe ColdFusion is an application server, renowned for rapid development of dynamic websites, with a straightforward language (CFML), powerful methods for packaging and reusing your code, and AJAX support that will get developers deep into powerful web applications quickly. However, developing rich and robust web applications can be a real challenge as it involves multiple processes.With this practical guide, you will learn how to build professional ColdFusion applications. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just what you need if you are serious about ColdFusion.This book will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of ColdFusion 9 to the skills that will make you a ColdFusion developer to be reckoned with. It also covers the new features of ColdFusion 9 like ORM Database Interaction and CF Builder.ColdFusion expert John Farrar will teach you the basics of ColdFusion programming, application architecture, and object reuse, before showing you a range of topics including AJAX library integration, RESTful Web Services, PDF creation and manipulation, and dynamically generated presentation files that will make you the toast of your ColdFusion developer town.This book digs deep with the basics, with real-world examples of the how and whys, to get more done faster with ColdFusion 9.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Using an object constructor


We will modify our code just a little bit to correct the missing variable using the constructor init() method. Modify the createObject line by adding .init(); to the end as shown in the following highlighted line. You will find that you can tack on a method you want to call at the time of creating an object, all on the same line. This is a common method among developers. When you use a constructor, you should always return the this variable to the caller. this is the variable scope of an object that refers to itself and this returns a reference to the object itself. That will correctly pass the object back when you place the constructor at the end of the creation of the object. If you look at the init method in the CFC, you will find that we include it with the <cfreturn this>.

<!--- Example: 2_2b.cfm --->
<!--- Processing --->
<cfscript>
  objProduct = createObject("component","product_1").init();

You will also notice that we are pulling...