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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By : John Farrar
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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

ColdFusion AJAX


Web servers possess the design to work with AJAX. This proved to be one of the most remarkable features in this version of ColdFusion. The features of AJAX integration are focused into two areas—layout and server communication. We will concentrate on layout in this chapter, but will mention some of the communication features, wherever appropriate.

Layout

There are four layout containers in ColdFusion 9. These include the <cfdiv>, <cflayout>, <cf pod>, and <cfwindow> containers. They give us great power and flexibility.

<cfdiv />

By default, this will generate <div> tags and send them as HTML to the browser. We are going to create a page that allows us to pass the name and date of a form to another page. The AJAX feature is that the page will not reload to refresh the <div> content. It will be passed through an AJAX request. Here's how we can do this in ColdFusion:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>CFDiv Example</title&gt...