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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

Linked grids


Another type of grid function that may be useful would be a grid designed with hyperlinks. Mixing hyperlinks and an edit grid should be avoided in most cases because you cannot edit a hyperlink column. You can do several things with the linked grid. You could create links so that it reloads the same page for another detailed page to drill down in another grid for reporting purposes. If you use Row instead of Single as the value for selectMode, then we will observe that it passes the entire row of data as a delimited string. Now, we will proceed with the value Single:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Grid Example</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Grid Example</h2>
    <cfform name="bob">
      <cfgrid name="products"
              format="html" striperows="yes"
              pageSize="3"
              selectOnLoad="yes" 
              preservePageOnSort="yes"
              selectMode="Single" 
              delete="true" deletebutton...