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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By : John Farrar
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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By: John Farrar

Overview of this book

Adobe ColdFusion is an application server, renowned for rapid development of dynamic websites, with a straightforward language (CFML), powerful methods for packaging and reusing your code, and AJAX support that will get developers deep into powerful web applications quickly. However, developing rich and robust web applications can be a real challenge as it involves multiple processes.With this practical guide, you will learn how to build professional ColdFusion applications. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just what you need if you are serious about ColdFusion.This book will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of ColdFusion 9 to the skills that will make you a ColdFusion developer to be reckoned with. It also covers the new features of ColdFusion 9 like ORM Database Interaction and CF Builder.ColdFusion expert John Farrar will teach you the basics of ColdFusion programming, application architecture, and object reuse, before showing you a range of topics including AJAX library integration, RESTful Web Services, PDF creation and manipulation, and dynamically generated presentation files that will make you the toast of your ColdFusion developer town.This book digs deep with the basics, with real-world examples of the how and whys, to get more done faster with ColdFusion 9.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Custom header/footer tags


Now, we will look at our first tag. This is the header tag:

<cfif thisTag.ExecutionMode EQ "start">
  <div id="header">
    <h1 id="siteName">ColdFusion Site</h1>
    <div id="globalNav"> <a href="#">Home</a> | <a href="#">AboutUs</a> | <a href="#">Shop</a> | <a href="#">Forum</a> | <a href="#">FAQ</a> | <a href="#">Links</a> | <a href="#">Contact Us </a> </div>
  </div>
</cfif>

We could actually just skip the start and end tags, but that would lead to someone using the tag incorrectly. Take a look at the two styles of coding of our new custom tag and you will see the difference. The styles are as follows:

  • <cf_header>

  • <cf_header />

Just as in HTML, there are some tags that do not need a closing tag, but there are other tags that do use a closing tag. The modern standards suggest that for HTML, we close all HTML tags. Since we...