ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Web Pages—Static to Dynamic
• Turning HTML into a Dynamic Web Page
• Understanding and Using Simple Variables
• Understanding Structures
• Let Us Get Interactive
• Setting Page Defaults
• Introduction to Lists and Loops
• Understanding Arrays
• Conditional Processing with If
• Conditional Processing with Switch
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Basic CFCs and Database Interaction
• Our First CFC
• Our First Object
• Product (object)
• Using an Object Constructor
• Connecting to a Database
• Returning Data from the CFC
• Making Our Data Query Flexible
• The Basic Data Object Concept
• Object Method Access Control
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Power CFCs and Web Forms
• The Practice of Protecting Access
• Web Forms Introduction
• Managing Our Product Data
• Getting Data to Our Edit Page
• Saving Our Data
• Improving Page Flow
• Adding a New Record
• Let Us Look Under the Hood
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Application, Session, and Request Scope
• Life Span
• Introducing the Application.cfc Object
• Application Variables
• The Start Methods
• Application Start Method
• Session Start Method
• Request Start Method
• The End Methods
• Request End Method
• Session End Method
• Application End Method
• On Error Method
• Scope Visibility
• Practical Application
• Mappings per Application
• Custom Tag Paths per Application
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Introduction to Custom Tags
• Different Forms of Code Reuse
• CFCs
• Custom Tags
• CFInclude
• Our First Custom Tag
• Custom Header/Footer Tags
• Nested Tags
• CFInclude from Custom Tags
• Templates versus Skins
• Managing Custom Tags
• CFModule Approach
• Tag Library Approach
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Better Interfaces for JavaScript Libraries
• Thickbox Library HTML Style
• ColdFusion-Powered Thickbox
• Where Am I? (via Google Maps)
• ColdFusion JavaScript
• Multiple State Form Items
• Inside the Fancy Form Tag
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Authentication and Permissions
• How ColdFusion Recognizes Users
• Custom Authentication (Additional Power)
• Authentication Data Model
• How to Use Advanced Authentication
• Extra Notes
• Summary

• Chapter 8: CF AJAX User Interface
• HTML-Based Websites
• Server-Side Languages
• Browser-Side Applications
• Flash
• JavaScript

• ColdFusion AJAX
• Layout
• <cfdiv />
• <cflayout />
• <cfpod />
• <cfwindow />
• Menus and Tool Tips
• <cfmenu />
• <cftooltip />

• Styling Notes
• Tips
• Summary

• Chapter 9: CF AJAX Forms
• Forms
• <cfgrid />
• Grid Paging
• Grid Updates and Deletes
• Linked Grids
• <cfinput />
• Binding Page Elements
• Binding Immediately upon Load
• The Date Requestor
• The Autosuggest Box
• <cfselect />
• <cftextarea />
• <cftree />
• The Directory Tree
• Summary

• Chapter 10: CF AJAX Programming
• Binding
• On Page Binding
• CFC Binding
• JavaScript Binding
• URL Binding
• Bind with Event
• Extra Binding Notes
• Multiple Radio Buttons or Check Boxes and Multiple Select
• Spry Binding
• CFAJAXProxy
• CFAJAX Proxy Binding
• CFC Proxy Class Objects
• Client Debugging
• Firebug
• Built-In Debugging
• Logging Features
• Customization
• Automatically Wired AJAX Links
• Execute JavaScript after Loading Content
• Other Cool Commands
• Post for CFAJAX Calls
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Working with PDF
• Generating PDF Pages
• Our First PDF Page Conversion
• Splitting into Sections
• Adding Headers and Footers and Variables
• Adding Page Breaks and Variables
• Adding Bookmarks
• Saving PDF Documents
• Printing from the Server
• Working with PDF Forms
• Populating PDF Forms with Data
• Reading Data from PDF Forms
• Manipulating PDF Documents
• Merging Documents
• Deleting Pages
• Encrypting PDF Documents
• Generating Thumbnails
• Adding Watermarks
• Final Thoughts
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Building Search Abilities
• Database Searching
• Verity Search Solutions
• Built-In Search Engine
• Creating a Collection
• Indexing a Collection
• Searching a Collection
• The Search Form
• The Results Page
• Search Techniques
• PDF Linking to Searches
• Suggestions
• Integrating Third-Party Searching
• Google Details
• Custom Search Engines (Google)
• On-The-Fly Search Engine
• Simple Search
• Search Types
• Site Restricted
• Local Search
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Working with Files, Email, and Images
• Working with Files
• Uploading Files
• Local File Control
• Write File
• Read File
• Rename File
• Append File
• Read File via Loop
• Working with Email
• Working with Images
• Image Information
• Summary

• Chapter 14: Feeds, REST Services, and Web Services
• Collaboration
• Flickr
• Feeds
• RSS
• CDF
• JSON
• SQL
• Introduction to REST Services
• SOAP Web Services
• Summary

• Chapter 15: Building Dynamic Reports
• Traditional Web Page Reporting
• Simple Report
• Grouped Data
• Drill-Down Reporting
• Output Formats
• PDF Output
• Excel Output
• CVS Output
• XML Output
• JSON Output
• Using CFReport and Report Builder
• Summary

• Chapter 16: Dynamically Generated Web Presentations
• Introduction to CFPresentation
• Mixing in the Media
• Caching the Contents
• Dynamic Benefits
• Scenario 1: Sales Force
• Scenario 2: Client-Specific Presentations
• Scenario 3: Live Audience Sensitive Content
• Summary

• Appendix A: Getting Your System Ready for Development
• Tools
• AJAX
• Ant
• Database Engines
• Database Tools
• Media Tools
• Audio Software
• Image Software
• Video Software
• Reporting
• SVN
• Unit Testing
• Conclusions

• Appendix B: Resources to Build Your Skills
• Blogs
• ColdFusion Conferences
• Coding Frameworks
• General ColdFusion Sites
• Libraries and Tools
• Aspect or IoC or DI
• Content Handling/Generation
• Database
• JavaScript
• Project Management
• Script
• Search
• Site Integration APIs
• Unit Testing or Debugging
• XML Tools and Products
• Other Notable Works

• Index