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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

Map interaction


This is a special tag for me. If you are an owner of the previous edition of this book, you will know that there is a chapter on integrating Google Maps with ColdFusion in the chapter about building custom tags. I thought it was a very good idea and it caught on. Adobe shared my opinion and added this feature to the core tag library. I am not saying they took my code, but rather pointing out that we don't have to wait for Adobe to build everything for us. Yet, this is built in. Let's look at the great power Adobe has added.

The first thing we will need is an API key from Google. Make sure you read the terms of service so that you comply with an acceptable use of the maps, if you deploy this technology of course. Go to http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html or use Google search if this URL changes. I signed up for a "localhost" domain map key. Next we take the key it gives us and paste it into the ColdFusion Administrator. Go to the SEVER SETTINGS | Settings and find...