Table of Contents
ColdFusion: Just the Basics
Who Am I?
Who Are You?
What We’ll Cover
Topics
Introduction to ColdFusion
About ColdFusion
CF: Ready for Prime Time
Broad Database Support
Broad OS/Web Server Support
Great Portability
Scalability
Yet So Easy to Use!
Some Prominent CF Sites
Some Prominent CF Sites
And Did You Know?
Basic Coding Demonstrations
The Exploding Web
A Simple Dynamic Page
CF Tag Processing
Server Interprets CFML
Demonstrations
Server vs Client Processing
Side Note: Technology Integration
Why Dynamic Pages?
Site Updating: Old Way
Site Updating: The CF Way
Demonstrations
Additional Topics
Still More Topics
Yet More Topics
Database Integration
CF Can Access Server Databases
Some May Already Know...
Database Basics
Tables, Rows & Columns
Selecting Data From Table
Query Results
Limiting Rows Selected
ColdFusion Query Processing
Side Note: DataSource Definition
Executing SQL in CF
Side Note: CF Studio Query Builder
Demonstration
Result of SQL Statement
Demonstration
Looping Through Results
Demonstration
Using Results to Build HTML
Demonstration
Dynamic SQL
Still More Dynamic SQL
Building a Search Interface
Additional Topics
When and When Not to Use CF
CF For Everything?
Don’t Do the Database’s Work
Leverage Other Objects
Server Side Java
Allaire: Major Player in Server Side Java
Learning More About CF and Java
CF vs. ASP
Conclusion
CF: The Developer’s Choice
CF: A Complete Environment
Where to Learn More
Great Beginner SQL Resource
Good Luck!
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