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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 - displaying a video player


  1. 1. Under our <Railo Install Directory>/webroot/ folder, let's create a Chapter_7 folder to put all our code samples in.

  2. 2. Download and copy the file trailer.flv from the code samples, which you can download from the Packt Publishing website. This is the video of Big Buck Bunny that we are going to display.

  3. 3. Let's create a template named listing_7_01.cfm and add this code, it's the basic outline of a page with the tag <cfvideoplayer>:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head><title>Video Display</title></head>
    <body>
    <cfvideoplayer video="trailer.flv" width="480" height="270">
    </body>
    </html>
    
  4. 4. If we now head to http://localhost:8888/Chapter_7/listing_7_01.cfm, we will be able to see the video player with our trailer in it. It has the controls that are needed, including play, full screen, and volume control.

  5. 5. The attributes of the <cfvideoplayer> tag are quite easy; we have...