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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 the tasks


Because we have to reload the page to show our tasks. Let's do this automatically? This is really simple. But First, let's create a page that displays the tasks:

  1. 1. Create a template named displayTasks.cfm and save it in the todo folder.

  2. 2. In the displayTasks.cfm template, add the following simple loop code:

    <ul id="taskList">
    <cfloop array="#SESSION.tasks#" index="task">
    <li><cfoutput>#task.NAME#</cfoutput></li>
    </cfloop>
    </ul>
    
  3. 3. The previous code simply loops through the items in the SESSION.tasks array and displays them in an unordered list.

  4. 4. If we now go to http://localhost:8888/todo/displaytasks.cfm, we can see the output from the session:

  5. 5. Now that we have something to display, we can integrate it into the main index.cfm template. Let's add another AJAX tag to display the contents of displayTask.cfm; change the main part of your code to add the <cfdiv> tag:

    <div id="page">
    <h1...