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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 - creating our own extension provider


We created the Railo Extension famousquotesinstaller.zip, which we now have on our local computer. How can we add and share the extension within Railo Server? This can be achieved by using the Extension Provider system. This is a system unique to Railo Server, where you can easily share extensions with other Railo Server users.

We only need to create one CFC file, which will be serving our extensions for us, and provides some details about itself.

  1. 1. At the root of our <Railo Install Directory>/webroot2/ folder, create a file named ExtensionProvider.cfc, with the following content:

    <cfcomponent output="no">
    <cffunction name="getInfo" access="remote" returntype="struct" output="no">
    <cfset var info = {
    title="Railo book extensions"
    , description="Providing you with the best Extensions you can find!"
    , image="http://site2.local:8888/railoBookExtensions.png"
    , url="http://site2.local/"
    , mode="develop"
    } />
    <cfreturn...