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ColdFusion has enjoyed widespread use among developers as a powerful, easy-to-learn platform for creating and deploying dynamic web applications. ColdFusion's simple, tag-based language makes it easy to handle basic tasks, like processing form data and querying databases, but the language is also powerful enough to deliver highly scalable, robust applications. And now that Macromedia has integrated ColdFusion into its MX family of technologies, ColdFusion is capable of interacting with Flash MX applications, which opens up even more possibilities.The first edition of this book has been praised as "the best reference book available on the subject." This new edition, Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition, goes even further, documenting new techniques for using ColdFusion MX 6.1 to develop and serve dynamic web page content. This exhaustive guide covers everything from the basics to advanced topics, with numerous examples that you can use for your own applications. Contents include:
This exhaustive resource covers everything from ColdFusion basics to advanced topics that are ideal for intermediate developers.
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Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing ColdFusion
Chapter 2: ColdFusion Basics
Chapter 3: Passing Data Between Templates
Chapter 4: Database Basics
Chapter 5: Maintaining Database Records
Chapter 6: Complex Datatypes
Chapter 7: Maintaining State
Chapter 8: Security
Chapter 9: Error and Exception Handling
Chapter 10: Dynamic Form Controls
Chapter 11: Advanced Database Techniques
Chapter 12: Manipulating Files and Directories
Chapter 13: Working with Email
Chapter 14: Interacting with Other Web Servers Using HTTP
Chapter 15: Interfacing with LDAP-Enabled Directories
Chapter 16: Working with the Verity Search Interface
Chapter 17: Graphing and Charting
Chapter 18: Regular Expressions in ColdFusion
Chapter 19: Scripting
Chapter 20: User-Defined Functions
Chapter 21: Creating Custom Tags
Chapter 22: ColdFusion Components
Chapter 23: XML and WDDX
Chapter 24: Web Services
Chapter 25: Working with the System Registry
Chapter 26: Using the ColdFusion Scheduler
Chapter 27: Interacting with COM, CORBA, and Java
Chapter 28: Flash Remoting
Appendix A: Tag Reference
Appendix B: Function Reference
Appendix C: Example Database Tables
Appendix D: ColdFusion Resources
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ColdFusion has enjoyed widespread use among developers as a powerful, easy-to-learn platform for creating and deploying dynamic web applications. ColdFusion's simple, tag-based language makes it easy to handle basic tasks, like processing form data and querying databases, but the language is also powerful enough to deliver highly scalable, robust applications. And now that Macromedia has integrated ColdFusion into its MX family of technologies, ColdFusion is capable of interacting with Flash MX applications, ...