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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

CFModule approach


You can use this custom command in ColdFusion to call the custom tags. It works similarly to directly calling a custom tag. Let's say, you are going to call the page item we were working with by using the CFModule tag. This is how your page will appear. You can also find this page in the examples folder as four.cfm:

<cfmodule template="page.cfm" 
  layout="faq"
  title="ColdFusion Site - Creating Custom Tags"
  keywords="learn,CF,Coldfusion"
  description="This is the third page from the learning custom tags chapter.">
  <h2 id="pageName">Creating Custom Tags</h2>
  <div class="story">
    <h3>Power Markup via Custom Tags </h3>
    <p> Custom tags are one powerful method of making HTML sites easier to build, manage and update. If you have never learned the power of custom tags you should get a copy of ColdFusion Bootcamp and read all about it! </p>
  </div>
</cfmodule>

If we were calling the custom tag in a different...