Your Professional Resource for Developing with ColdFusion 5
Master ColdFusion—the premier environment for developing flexible,powerful Web applications—with the authoritative information in this professional-level resource. From installing and optimizing your development operating system,to mastering advanced practices like advanced application security and using Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX),ColdFusion 5 Developer's Guide delivers the accurate,thorough instruction required to design and deploy a wide range of useful Web applications. ColdFusion developer and e-commerce guru Michael Buffington will help you discover—and master—the tools you'll need to excel in ColdFusion Web application development.
| Acknowledgments | xvii | |
| Introduction | xix | |
| Part I | Installation & Overview | |
| Chapter 1 | Windows 2000 Installation and Optimization | 3 |
| Internet Information Server 5.0 | 4 | |
| SQL Server 2000 | 19 | |
| Installing ColdFusion 5.0 | 46 | |
| Wrapping Up | 50 | |
| Chapter 2 | Linux Installation and Optimization | 51 |
| Setting Up Apache as Your Web Server | 52 | |
| Setting Up MySQL | 63 | |
| Installing ColdFusion 5.0 | 68 | |
| Wrapping Up | 69 | |
| Chapter 3 | New ColdFusion 5.0 Features | 71 |
| ColdFusion Administrator | 72 | |
| Database Connection Support | 126 | |
| New Tags | 127 | |
| New Functions | 133 | |
| User Defined Functions | 133 | |
| Queries of Queries | 134 | |
| Wrapping Up | 134 | |
| Part II | The Project | |
| Chapter 4 | Project Planning | 137 |
| Planning Methods for Software Development | 138 | |
| Planning Our Sample Skate Shop Application | 142 | |
| Wrapping Up | 164 | |
| Chapter 5 | The Database | 165 |
| Background on Database Forms | 166 | |
| Referential Integrity | 172 | |
| Designing Our Database | 179 | |
| Building Our Database | 187 | |
| Wrapping Up | 193 | |
| Chapter 6 | Building the skate.shop Front End | 195 |
| Discussing the Skate.shop Code Standard | 196 | |
| Building the Interface | 199 | |
| Building the Mini-Applications for the Interface | 219 | |
| Wrapping Up | 265 | |
| Chapter 7 | Building the skate.shop Administrator Tool | 267 |
| Administrator Overview | 268 | |
| Order Processing | 275 | |
| Reporting | 289 | |
| Wrapping Up | 293 | |
| Chapter 8 | Launching and Maintaining the Site | 295 |
| Building a Maintenance Scheduler | 296 | |
| Staging and Launching skate.shop | 309 | |
| Monitoring Performance | 315 | |
| Tweaking Performance | 331 | |
| Listening to the Customer | 336 | |
| Wrapping Up | 343 | |
| Part III | Advanced Topics | |
| Chapter 9 | Scripting with [left angle bracket]CFSCRIPT[right angle bracket] | 347 |
| Advantages of [left angle bracket]CFSCRIPT[right angle bracket] | 348 | |
| Disadvantages of [left angle bracket]CFSCRIPT[right angle bracket] | 350 | |
| [left angle bracket]CFSCRIPT[right angle bracket] Conventions | 352 | |
| Setting Variables | 353 | |
| Using WriteOutput() | 355 | |
| Using Conditional Statements | 356 | |
| Using Loops | 359 | |
| User Defined Functions | 360 | |
| Wrapping Up | 362 | |
| Chapter 10 | Advanced Technologies | 365 |
| Locking | 366 | |
| ColdFusion Extensions | 370 | |
| WDDX | 374 | |
| Using Advanced Security | 377 | |
| Wrapping Up | 394 | |
| Chapter 11 | Stored Procedures and Advanced Database Connectivity | 395 |
| Stored Procedures | 396 | |
| Advanced Database Connectivity | 415 | |
| Wrapping Up | 417 | |
| Chapter 12 | [left angle bracket]CFTRANSACTION[right angle bracket] | 419 |
| Database Transactions | 420 | |
| How SQL Server 2000 Handles Transactions | 422 | |
| Locking | 424 | |
| The [left angle bracket]CFTRANSACTION[right angle bracket] Tag | 432 | |
| Controlling Transactions | 434 | |
| Wrapping Up | 438 | |
| Chapter 13 | Debugging | 439 |
| Debugging ColdFusion Applications | 440 | |
| Wrapping Up | 463 | |
| Chapter 14 | Error Handling | 465 |
| Using [left angle bracket]CFERROR[right angle bracket] | 467 | |
| Using [left angle bracket]CFTRY[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]CFCATCH[right angle bracket] | 477 | |
| Using [left angle bracket]CFTHROW[right angle bracket] | 482 | |
| Using [left angle bracket]CFRETHROW[right angle bracket] | 483 | |
| Sitewide Error Handler | 484 | |
| Missing Template Handler | 484 | |
| Wrapping Up | 485 | |
| Chapter 15 | Custom Tags | 487 |
| Simple Custom Tags | 488 | |
| Advanced Custom Tags and Functionality | 506 | |
| Using [left angle bracket]CFASSOCIATE[right angle bracket] | 522 | |
| Using [left angle bracket]CFMODULE[right angle bracket] | 524 | |
| Wrapping Up | 526 | |
| Chapter 16 | Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions | 527 |
| Overview | 528 | |
| The Rules | 529 | |
| Character Classes | 532 | |
| Multicharacter Regular Expressions | 533 | |
| Anchoring | 534 | |
| Backreferencing | 535 | |
| Matched Subexpressions | 536 | |
| Wrapping Up | 536 | |
| Chapter 17 | Internet Protocols | 537 |
| E-mail and ColdFusion | 538 | |
| File Transfer Protocol | 555 | |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) | 564 | |
| Wrapping Up | 573 | |
| Chapter 18 | XML and SQL 2000 | 575 |
| Reading XML Data | 576 | |
| Writing XML Data | 595 | |
| Wrapping Up | 599 | |
| Index | 601 |
Anonymous
Posted Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2004
I like the book, don't get me wrong. The fact that the book is almost $60 and there's no CD is not right. The book describes a Skate Shop and how to create it but isn't completely clear on creating every query, database table and cfm page you need. I got frustrated when there was a huge view to create and the first table referenced wasn't even mentioned beforehand, so I hadn't created it. A link to download code and images somewhere would have been considered more thought out on the publisher and authors part.
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Posted Sun Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2001
I've been using ColdFusion for several years now, and have finally found a book that is truly from the perspective of a someone who nows how to be creative with the language. I thought my understanding of ColdFusion was pretty large, but have still learned a lot from this book that I didn't yet know. I'd recommend a different book if you're a ColdFusion beginner, but if you're ready to go further, check this book out.
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Your Professional Resource for Developing with ColdFusion 5
Master ColdFusion—the premier environment for ...