Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing Railo Server
Chapter 2: Installing Railo Server
Chapter 3: CFML Language
Chapter 4: Railo Server Administration
Chapter 5: Developing Applications with Railo Server
Chapter 6: Advanced CFML Functionality
Chapter 7: Multimedia and AJAX
Chapter 8: Resources and Mappings
Chapter 9: Extending Railo Server
Chapter 10: Creating a Video-sharing Application
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introducing Railo Server
• Why use Railo Server?
• What does Railo Server do?
• A better look at Railo Server
• What else can you do with Railo Server?
• CFML compiler
• Railo archives—compiled code
• Wide variety of CFML tags and functions
• Object-oriented approach
• Scripting support
• Integrated administration frontend
• Background task execution
• Extension manager
• Easy update mechanism
• Compatibility
• Framework and application compatibility
• Security
• Virtual filesystems
• High performance
• Easy installation
• Inexpensive and free
• Easy clustering
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Installing Railo Server
• Getting up and running with Railo Express
• Time for action – downloading Railo
• Customizing Railo Express
• Time for action – setting the administrator's password
• Running the Railo Server Tomcat installer
• Time for action – installing on Windows
• Adding CFML-enabled sites to IIS7
• Time for action – adding a site to IIS7
• Getting up and running with the Railo WAR and Jetty
• Time for action – downloading and installing Jetty
• Time for action – booting up Jetty
• Time for action – downloading and deploying the Railo WAR
• Summary

• Chapter 3: CFML Language
• Basics of the CMFL language
• Time for action – Hello World!
• CFML tags
• Single tags with attributes
• Tags with expressions
• Time for action – single tag example
• Tags with content
• Tags with sub tags
• CFML functions
• Time for action – using built-in functions
• User-defined functions
• Time for action – using user-defined functions
• CFML variables
• Structure variables
• Time for action – using structures
• Array variables
• Time for action – creating an array
• CFML scopes
• SERVER scope
• Time for action – adding a variable to the SERVER scope
• APPLICATION scope
• Time for action – creating the APPLICATION scope
• SESSION scope
• Time for action – creating a SESSION scope in your Application
• REQUEST scope
• Time for action – using the REQUEST Scope
• CGI scope
• Handling web data
• URL variables
• Time for action – getting variables from the URL
• FORM variables
• Time for action – getting FORM variables
• Cookies
• Database access
• Time for action – installing MySQL and setting up our database
• Time for action – configuring data sources in Railo Server
• Time for action – running queries against our database
• Queries with parameters
• What just happened?
• Stored procedures
• Time for action – calling stored procedures
• Object Oriented Programming with Components
• Time for action – creating the Employee component
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Railo Server Administration
• Server and Web context
• Time for action – setting up an example context
• Setting up security
• Time for action – setting your password
• How contexts relate to each other
• Time for action – setting the time zone
• The Railo Web Administrator
• Time for action – investigating the Web Administrator
• Settings
• Performance/Caching
• Time for action – comparing template caching settings
• Regional
• Charset
• Scope

• Time for action – restricting the scoping of variables
• Time for action – merging the URL and FORM scopes
• Application
• Output
• Error

• Services
• Event Gateway
• Cache
• Datasource
• ORM
• Search

• Time for action – creating a search collection
• Mail
• Tasks
• Scheduled tasks

• Extension
• Applications
• Providers

• Remote
• Archives and resources
• Mappings

• Time for action – creating mappings in our application
• Component

• Time for action – using magic functions
• Additional resources
• Custom tags
• CFX tags

• Development

• Time for action – setting the debug template
• Security
• Documentation

• Summary

• Chapter 5: Developing Applications with Railo Server
• Railo applications
• Time for action – building the simplest application
• Time for action – defining the application
• Session and client settings
• Application events
• Object relational mapping with Railo Server
• Time for action – upgrading Railo Server
• Creating our database persistence store
• Time for action – creating a database
• Time for action – creating our railoblog datasource
• Using persistent components
• Time for action – creating the blog
• Time for action – listing our blog posts
• Time for action – adding comments
• Caching in Railo Server
• Cache: what is it good for?
• Time for action – creating a cache connection
• Time for action – using the Cache object
• Time for action – getting well versed with more caching functions
• Cache providers
• Cache types
• Time for action – caching a page with cfcache
• Partial template caching

• Time for action – caching content within a template
• Query cache

• Time for action – caching a query using cachedwithin
• Resource cache

• Time for action – assigning an EHCache Lite connection to resources
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Advanced CFML Functionality
• Scripting within Railo Server
• Why tags are good
• Why tags are bad
• The <cfscript> tag
• Loops
• Looping lists
• Time for action – looping through a list
• Looping arrays

• Time for action – looping an array
• Looping structures

• Time for action – looping through a structure
• Looping queries

• Time for action – looping over queries
• Scripted components

• Time for action – creating the component
• Scripting tags

• Time for action – getting the contents of another site
• Scripting wrapped tags

• Time for action – using the <cfloop> tag in CFScript
• Scripting wrapped tags—Part 2

• Time for action – get a user by his/her ID
• Built-in components
• The Query built-in component

• Time for action – using the Query component
• The HTTP built-in component

• Time for action – getting the content of a website via the HTTP component
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Multimedia and AJAX
• Video
• Displaying video
• Time for action – displaying a video player
• Converting a video
• Time for action – installing the Video Extension
• Time for action – creating clips for our video player
• Time for action – creating poster frames and clips
• Time for action – adding a playlist to <cfvideoplayer>
• AJAX functionality within the Railo server
• Time for action – setting up the application and services
• Time for action – binding the input to the component
• Time for action – displaying the tasks
• Time for action – deleting a task
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Resources and Mappings
• Railo resources
• Accessing files locally
• Time for action – writing and reading files
• Looping files
• Time for action – looping through the contents of a file Mappings
• Time for action – creating a mapping for the log file
• Accessing code from mappings
• Time for action – creating our components
• Railo archives
• Time for action – creating a Railo archive
• Mappings and their settings
• Time for action – changing the settings of a mapping
• Accessing your files from ZIP and TAR files
• Time for action – accessing files from a ZIP file
• Using RAM as a quick location to store files
• Time for action – compiling plain text to CFML
• Using Amazon's Simple Storage Service to use files in the Cloud
• Time for action – using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Extending Railo Server
• Why create your own CFML tags and functions?
• Time for action – creating our own CFML tag
• CFML functions
• Time for action – creating our own CFML function
• Using return type "any"
• Structure and array notation in the form and URL scope

• Installing extensions
• Time for action – installing an extension for the web context
• Server versus web extensions
• The extension installation system

• Time for action – installing the Galleon forums web application
• Time for action – creating our own Railo application extension
• Creating the Famous Quotes App

• Time for action – creating our own extension provider
• The ExtensionProvider CFC
• GetInfo structure information
• ListApplications query information
• GetDownloadDetails function
• The role of the Web ID and Server ID

• The Railo Extension Store
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Creating a Video-sharing Application
• VideoShare: Getting to know our application
• Goals of the application
• Creating our application
• Time for action – creating our basic application
• Laying it all out
• Time for action – creating the layout custom tag
• Registering users
• Time for action – creating our user model object
• User login and logout
• Time for action – log in or log out of the application
• Uploading videos
• Time for action – uploading a video
• Adding security
• Time for action – adding the secure tag
• Assigning videos to users
• Time for action – storing our video to the database
• Converting and playing videos
• Time for action – converting the uploaded video
• Creating thumbnails for our videos
• Time for action – creating images from a video
• Adding comments to our video page
• Time for action – adding comments to our videos
• Creating the home page
• Time for action – getting the latest videos
• Summary

• Index