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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels
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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels

Overview of this book

<p>Railo Server is one of the quickest ways to start developing complex web applications online. Widely considered as the fastest CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) engine, Railo allows you to create dynamic web pages that can change depending on user input, database lookups, or even the time of day.</p> <p>Railo 3 Beginner's Guide will show you how to get up and running with Railo, as well as developing your web applications with the greatest of ease. You will learn how to install Railo and the basics of CFML to allow you to gradually build up your knowledge, and your dynamic web applications, as the book progresses.</p> <p>Using Packt’s Beginner's Guide approach, this book will guide you, with step-by-step instructions, through installing the Railo Server on various environments. You will learn how to use caches, resources, Event Gateways and special scripting functions that will allow you to create webpages with limitless functionality. You will even explore methods of extending Railo by adding your own tags to the server and building custom extensions. Railo 3 Beginner's Guide is a must for anyone getting to grips with Railo Server.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Railo 3
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 10. Creating a Video-sharing Application

In the preceding chapters, we have looked at a lot of features that are available to you in Railo Server. It's time to put them all into practice. This chapter will guide you through developing a video sharing application from start to finish. Also, in this process, we are going to put into practice techniques we learned in previous chapters so you can see how the various aspects of Railo Server actually work in a real world example.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Build an application to share videos

  • Use the Railo Server ORM system to register and log in users

  • Use the video conversion capabilities to convert videos ready for the web

  • Use the session scope to allow users to log in to the application

Doesn't sound like a lot, but with these aspects, we can build a fully working application. Let's get to it!

VideoShare: Getting to know our application

Before we get coding, let's get acquainted with the application we are going to be building. VideoShare is...