ColdFusion MX Web Development with Dreamweaver: The Practical User's Guide explores the great web development partnership between ColdFusion, a fantastically powerful but easy to learn server-side scripting language and Dreamweaver, Macromedia's world-class visual web- authoring tool. Using Dreamweaver you can set up your ColdFusion website, connect it to your database, put together all the code for the pages, and style them too, with very little hassle. This book is ideal for all the Dreamweaver users who want to quickly get up to speed with the fundamentals of ColdFusion.

About the Authors

ix

Introduction

xiii

Chapter 1 Welcome to ColdFusion MX 6.1

1

(20)

A Brief History of ColdFusion

1

(1)

Integration with Studio MX

2

(1)

Integration with Dreamweaver

3

(1)

The ColdFusion MX 6.1 Server and CFML

4

(1)

Installing the ColdFusion MX 6.1 Server

5

(3)

The ColdFusion MX 6.1 Administrator

8

(6)

Setting Up a Site in Dreamweaver MX 2004

14

(3)

Getting Started with CFML

17

(3)

Summary

20

(1)

Chapter 2 Databases and Dreamweaver MX 2004

21

(26)

Different Kinds of Databases

22

(2)

Using an Access Database

24

(4)

Getting Started with SQL Queries

28

(4)

Setting Up a Data Source

32

(2)

Using Dreamweaver MX 2004 to Create Queries

34

(3)

Using Dreamweaver MX 2004's Advanced Recordset Interface

37

(8)

Summary

45

(2)

Chapter 3 Introduction to ColdFusion

Markup Language

47

(1)

Introducing CFML

47

(6)

Understanding Common ColdFusion Tags

53

(30)

Summary

83

(2)

Chapter 4 ColdFusion Variables and Logic

85

(48)

Variable Scopes

85

(9)

Data Types

94

(3)

Functions

97

(34)

Summary

131

(2)

Chapter 5 Form Processing

133

(44)

Getting Started with Form Processing

133

(3)

Server-Side Validation

136

(6)

Creating an E-mail Feedback Form

142

(5)

Working with File Uploads

147

(6)

Forms and Checkboxes

153

(2)

Multiple Submit Buttons

155

(3)

Using Pre-built Server Behaviors

158

(8)

Logging Out Users

166

(2)

Restrict Access to a Page

168

(3)

Insert Record

171

(3)

Check New Username

174

(2)

Summary

176

(1)

Chapter 6 Database Manipulation

177

(40)

Recordsets and Dynamic Tables

177

(3)

Adding an Edit Page

180

(4)

Building an Insert Page

184

(4)

Recordset Paging

188

(10)

Creating a Dynamic Image Gallery in ColdFusion

198

(6)

Advanced SQL Topics

204

(11)

Summary

215

(2)

Chapter 7 Maintaining State

217

(36)

Using Cookies

217

(4)

Session Variables

221

(10)

Application Variables

231

(9)

Client Variables

240

(8)

Understanding Cookieless Sessions

248

(3)

Summary

251

(2)

Chapter 8 Exception Handling with CFML

253

(26)

Configuring the ColdFusion Administrator to Handle Errors at the Server Level

254

(9)

Using [cferror] to Handle Errors at the Application Level 256

Using [cfcatch], [cftry], [cfthrow], and [cfrethrow] to Build More Robust Exception Handling 259

When and How to Define and Handle Custom Exceptions

263

(3)

Best Practices and More on Structured Exception Handling

266

(1)

Debugging Using the ColdFusion Administrator Debug Settings

267

(10)

Using [cftrace] to Debug an Application 269

Using [cfdump] to Debug Applications 272

Using [cftransaction] to Protect Data Integrity 274

Summary

277

(2)

Chapter 9 Dreamweaver MX 2004 Extensions

279

(24)

Exploring Extensions

280

(4)

Yaromat Check Form

284

(4)

Massimocorner CF Upload

288

(4)

Dreamweaver's Server Behavior Builder

292

(9)

Summary

301

(2)

Chapter 10 Code and Component Reuse

303

(30)

The ColdFusion [cfinclude] tag 304

ColdFusion UDFs

304

(1)

ColdFusion Custom Tags

305

(4)

ColdFusion Components

309

(2)

Dreamweaver Snippets

311

(4)

Dreamweaver Library

315

(4)

Dreamweaver Templates

319

(8)

Dreamweaver Tag Libraries

327

(4)

Summary

331

(2)

Chapter 11 Working with XML In

Cold Fusion MX 6.1

333

(1)

XML: What Is It? Why Use It?

333

(3)

Dynamically Creating XML

336

(3)

Using XML with External Sources

339

(3)

Accessing and Manipulating XML Data

342

(5)

Searching for and Extracting XML Data with XPath

347

(3)

Transforming XML with XSLT

350

(5)

Summary

355

(2)

Chapter 12 Flash MX 2004, Web Services, and ColdFusion MX 6.1

357

(52)

Flash Remoting

358

(1)

Flash and ColdFusion Both Understand XML

358

(1)

loadVariables

359

(1)

Using Flash

359

(7)

ActionScript 2.0

366

(2)

Using Flash Components

368

(1)

Publishing a Movie

369

(2)

The (ColdFusion) Server Side of the Service

371

(1)

Sending the Current Time to Flash

371

(1)

Examining the Web Service in Flash MX 2004 Professional

372

(2)

Displaying the Time from the Server

374

(6)

Consuming a Web Service with Flash

380

(4)

Describing Web Service Data in Flash

384

(14)

Web Services Classes

398

(10)

Summary

408

(1)

Chapter 13 Case Study: A Complete

ColdFusion-Based Web Site

409

(1)

Running the Example Site

409

(1)

Planning a Web Site

410

(3)

Planning the Case Study Web Site

413

(5)

Getting Started

418

(7)

Building the Main Areas of the Site

425

(10)

The Administration Site

435

(15)

Summary

450

(1)

Index

451

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