Ben Forta
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ColdFusion 5 Web Application Construction Kit

ISBN
0789725843
Pages
1500
Publisher
Que / Macromedia Press — July 2001

This book is written for anyone who wants to create cutting-edge Web-based applications.

If you are a Webmaster or Web page designer and want to create dynamic, data-driven Web pages, this book is for you. If you are an experienced database administrator who wants to take advantage of the Web to publish or collect data, this book is for you, too. If you are starting out creating your Web presence, but know you want to serve more than just static information, this book will help get you there. If you have used ColdFusion before and want to learn what’s new in ColdFusion 5, this book is also for you. Even if you are an experienced ColdFusion user, this book provides you with invaluable tips and tricks and also serves as the definitive ColdFusion developer’s reference.

This book teaches you how to create real-world applications that solve real-world problems. Along the way, you acquire all the skills you need to design, implement, test, and roll out world-class applications.

Both as a tutorial and as a reference, this is the fourth edition of what has become the standard ColdFusion book. And this new updated enhanced, and extended edition (over 50% bigger) improves upon what has made this the #1 selling ColdFusion book ever. Some of the new topics covered include using Macromedia UltraDev, Flash integration, development methodologies, project management and planning, and much more.

Chapter listing

Introduction
1: Introduction to ColdFusion
2: Installing ColdFusion and ColdFusion Studio
3: Accessing the ColdFusion Administrator
4: Previewing ColdFusion
5: Building the Databases
6: Introduction to SQL
7: SQL Data Manipulation
8: Introduction to ColdFusion Studio
9: Using ColdFusion
10: CFML Basics
11: Creating Data Driven Pages
12: ColdFusion Forms
13: Form Data Validation
14: Using Forms to Add or Change Data
15: Debugging and Troubleshooting
16: Using Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev with ColdFusion
17: Planning an Application
18: Working with Projects
19: The Application Framework
20: Working with Sessions
21: Securing Your Applications
22: Building Reusable Components
23: Improving the User Experience
24: Improving Performance
25: Enhancing Forms with Java Applets
26: Integrating with Macromedia Flash
27: Graphing
28: Interacting with Email
29: Online Commerce
30: ColdFusion Server Configuration
31: Advanced SQL
32: Working with Stored Procedures
33: Error Handling
34: Generating Non-HTML Content
35: Interacting with the Operating System
36: Full-Text Searching
37: Event Scheduling
38: Managing Your Code
39: Development Methodologies
Appendix A: ColdFusion Tag Reference
Appendix B: ColdFusion Function Reference
Appendix C: Special ColdFusion Variables and Result Codes
Appendix D: Verity Search Language Reference
Appendix E: Sample Application Data Files

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