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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 - using the Cache object


Since we have now created our Cache connection, we can start using it. Let's try it out:

  1. 1. Under our <Railo Install>/webroot/Chapter_5/ folder, let's create a file called Listing5_3.cfm with the following code:

    <cfset cachePut('hello','Hello World')>
    <cfoutput> #cacheGet( 'hello')#</cfoutput>
    

    This code puts the string Hello world into the cache under the key hello. We can then get the item that is present using the cacheGet() function and display it.

    This code would output:

    Hello World

  2. 2. We can expand on this example a little, so you get an idea of the other parameters that we can use with the cachePut() function:

    <cfset cachePut('hello','Hello World',createTimespan(0,0,0,10) ,createTimespan(0,0,0,10),'mycache')>
    <cfoutput> #cacheGet( 'hello', true, 'myCache')#</cfoutput>
    

    In this example, we call the cachePut() method with the following parameters:

    • KeyName: This is the key name of our item in the...