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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

Turning lemons to lemonade


If anyone has had the frustration of designers handing the pages of HTML and then trying to mix the backend business logic, they know it's a situation that works but with room for improvement. We have a Model-View-Controller (this is a technical way to describe how pieces work together) simplified with COOP. The designer works in the view and the developer works in the controller and model. Here is a basic outline of the pieces and what they do:

  • Controller: This is actually the key that ties things together. This is where the pivot logic goes.

  • Model: This is the objects that follow the concepts of object-oriented programming. In its simplest form, this is often just an object that interacts with a database or has a design interface that lets us think of coding around a real-world model. This is why it is called model.

  • View: This is where the markup (typically HTML and CSS in web applications) is written or generated to be returned to the browser.

Separation complete...