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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

Summary


There is much more you can do with AJAX. There are developers who have been programming with ColdFusion since its early versions. They did not have all these pre-packaged helpers. As we learn and use other libraries and the different methods of adding to these, we must also add our own UI custom tags to enhance what we are learning as native features of ColdFusion. Here is a summary of what was covered in this chapter:

  • The difference between AJAX and Flash Rich Internet Interface (RIA)-based technologies.

  • The <cfdiv /> tag: This is a region of HTML that can be dynamically populated by a bind expression. This also works directly with ColdFusion forms.

  • The <cflayout /> tag: A horizontal or vertical layout container.

  • The <cfmenu /> tag: A menu bar or the root of a drop-down menu.

  • The <cfpod /> tag: An area of the browser with an optional title bar and a body that contains display elements.

  • The <cftooltip /> tag: This allows you to add dynamic tool tips to your...