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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

Chapter 7. Multimedia and AJAX

In this chapter, we are going to have a look at some of the other functionality that Railo Server provides outside of the normal web application development tooling. In this chapter, we are going to look at:

  • Converting and displaying video with <cfvideo> and <cfvideoplayer> tags

  • Adding communication between the browser and Railo Server using the AJAX functionality

Let's start off with checking out some videos.

Video

Video has taken off massively on the Web, and it is often a requirement for a site to be able to use some kind of video functionality. Whether it is for displaying it or converting it, it can be a tough option on how to do it as a developer. Luckily, this is where Railo Server comes to the rescue.

Built into Railo Server is the capability of easily displaying videos on your site. Railo Server does this by enabling a player to display videos by embedding a Flash video player into the HTML of your pages and displaying videos that are encoded...