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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

Summary


In this chapter, we covered a couple of the multimedia and AJAX capabilities of Railo Server:

  • We used the <cfvideoplayer> tag to display videos

  • We also used the <cfvideoplayer> tag to control which preview image we want to assign to a video and even add other videos in a playlist

  • Using the Extension Store, we added the Video Extension so that we had access to the <cfvideo> tag

  • Using the <cfvideo> tag, we converted different video formats so that they can be displayed in our web page using the <cfvideoplayer> tag

  • We also created clips and thumbnails from our origin video using the <cfvideo> tag

In the second part of the chapter, we looked at Railo Server's AJAX functionality. We looked at:

  • Using the onSessionStart() method in the Application.cfc to set up a SESSION variable to store our tasks

  • We created a TaskService.cfc to add and remove tasks from the SESSION.tasks variable

  • We used the <cfajaxproxy bind="cfc:todo.TaskService.addTodo({taskname...