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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 - creating a search collection


Let's create a collection and use the built-in search functionality to see it work.

  1. 1. We first need to create a directory to hold our collection; this doesn't have to be web-visible, but just for this example, we are going to create a folder in <Railo Install Directory>/webroot called collections.

  2. 2. Now, in the Railo Web Administrator, head to the Search section.

  3. 3. Enter bookcollection in the Name field for the collection.

  4. 4. Then, enter the full path to the collection folder in the Path field, and we should have something similar to the following screenshot:

  5. 5. Click on create, and you will have a page listing the created collection.

  6. 6. We need something to search, so let's create a folder in the <Railo Install Directory>/webroot called searchitems.

  7. 7. In this folder, let's add a page that we can now search. Let's write a file called railorocks.html and add the following to the file:

    <!DOCTYPE html >
    <html>
    <head...