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.
This book is the most intense guide to creating professional ColdFusion applications available. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just want you need if you are serious about ColdFusion.
This book will give you clear, concise and, of course, practical guidance to take you from the basics of ColdFusion 8 to the skills that will make you a ColdFusion developer to be reckoned with.
The basics of ColdFusion
Basic debugging and exception handling techniques, and conditional processing
Making your ColdFusion Components (CFCs) come alive with methods, using object inheritance, connecting to a database through the internal methods of our object/CFCs
Keeping your object/CFCs thread safe when multiple users are running the same code segments
Managing multiple products through common forms for listing, editing, and adding data
Passing information into a custom tag, different methods of storing and accessing tags and tag libraries
Wrapping the ThickBox JavaScript gallery functions into a custom tag for simple functional reuse
Wrapping a Google map library into our code with a custom tag for simplified interactive maps, and creating a multi-state form list wrapped in a custom tag
Controlling site content based on current user permissions
ColdFusion AJAX Layout features and ColdFusion widgets
Enhancing the user interface with AJAX
Searching with a database, features of Verity search solution, how to integrate a third-party search solution
Managing files, emails, and images for a dynamic website
Integrating Feed, REST, and SOAP web services for interacting with other sites
Creating data-driven reports in ColdFusion with several styles and interactions
Presenting dynamic contents on your site using CFPresentation