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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

Time for action - adding comments to our videos


  1. 1. In our model folder, which is under the videoshare directory, let's create a new component named Comment.cfc and add the following code to define it:

    component persistent="true" {
    property name="id" fieldtype="id" ormtype="int" generator="increment";
    property name="comment";
    property name="postedAt" ormtype="timestamp";
    property name="User" fieldtype="many-to-one" cfc="User" fkColumn="User_Id";
    property name="Video" fieldtype="many-to-one" cfc="Video" fkColumn="Video_Id";
    }
    
  2. 2. In the previous code, we have defined a comment as having an id, a comment property, and the date it was posted. We have also defined its relationships to the other model objects in our application. A user can have many comments; therefore, many comments can belong to one user. The same goes for a video; a video can have many comments, but a comment can only belong to one user. We define these relationships easily using the fieldtype="many-to-one".

    Note

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