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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 database


Before we can start persisting our components into a database, we have to actually tell Railo Server about that database. In your MySQL database, create a new empty database, either by using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool or by using the command line utilities:

  1. 1. At the command line, enter the following command to log into the mysql console:

    > mysql -u root p
    
  2. 2. When prompted, enter your password.

  3. 3. Enter the following to create a database called railoblog:

    > CREATE DATABASE railoblog;
    
  4. 4. mysql should reply with: Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)

    Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
    

What just happened?

We have just created a database that we are going to connect to from our templates. Let's go and configure the datasource now.