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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 - Hello World!


Create a file called listing3_1.cfm with the following contents (most CFML pages end with the extension .cfm.. This tells Railo Server that this file should be parsed):

<html>
<head><title>Example 1</title></head>
<body>
<cfset hello = "Hello World">
<cfoutput>#hello#</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>

You can now save this file to <railo install directory>/webroot/listing3_1.cfm, and then we can view the results by going to http://localhost:8888/listing3_1.cfm (you should be using the Railo Express edition you installed in Chapter 2, Installing Railo Server for all these examples). You will see the output "Hello World" displayed in your browser.

What just happened?

In the preceding code, we have an example HTML document that we have added some CFML code to. In the preceding example, we used the <cfset> tag to set the variable hello with a value of "Hello World". Then we use the <cfoutput...