ColdFusion: Fast Track

Introduction to ColdFusion
• Advantages of dynamic web pages
• Using ColdFusion Markup language (CFML)
• ColdFusion components and features
• Configuring ColdFusion environments
• Creating a site with Dreamweaver
• Creating local variables with
• Displaying variable values using
• Commenting your code

Publishing database content
• Understanding relational databases
• Using database drivers to connect to data sources
• ColdFusion Administration debugging
• Using the Dynamic Table tool
• Additional information returned with queries
• Using ColdFusion functions

Building forms with ColdFusion
• Understanding HTML forms and form controls
• Enabling debug output
• Self-Posting forms
• Evaluating form variables
• Converting to ColdFusion forms

Building search interfaces
• Using form data in dynamic queries
• Preserving form data
• Creating dynamic SQL
• Using multiple search criteria
• Creating a dynamic SQL statement
• Using text searches
• Using list searches

Building a drill-down interface
• Using dynamic URL parameters
• Creating a Query String
• Creating a data drill-down
• Data drill-down page

Inserting new data
• Building an Insert Form Page
• Using ColdFusion validation
• Using Client-side validation
• Using Server-side validation
• Creating custom validation
• Building an Insert Action page
• Redirecting Process Flow with

Updating data
• Building an update form page
• Providing the primary key for update
• Pre-filling HTML forms
• Building update logic

Reusing templates
• Reusing code
• Using custom tags
• Using user-defined functions
• Finding UDFs
• ColdFusion components
• Finding CFCs

Securing an Application
• Using the ColdFusion login Wizard
• Understanding the login pages
• Customising the login
• Using the Application framework
• Using Application Events
• Using Application Variables
• Using Session Variables

New features in ColdFusion
• New ColdFusion tags
• Building RSS feeds

Questions and answers