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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

The Railo Extension Store


Railo 3.3 has a great new feature, which makes sure that any extension you create gets the attention it deserves. Like Apple has its App Store, Railo now has an Extension Store.

The store can be found at http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/extensions/ and all its extensions are shown within your Railo Administrator.

You can browse through all the available extensions, register for a developer account, and add your own extensions:

It is your choice if you want to use the Railo Extension Store or your own provider. Here are the main differences between the two:

Option

Extension Store

Own provider

Paid extensions

You can't add paid extensions to the store (there is a Contact us link though)

You can build your own payment handling

Exposure

The Store Extensions are shown in every Railo Administrator worldwide

You'll have to tell people to add your provider to the Railo Administrator

Statistics

The store only has one statistic—the total number of downloads

You...