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Essential Cold Fusion 5 for Web Professionals

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ISBN-10: 0130356514

ISBN-13: 9780130356512

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Micah Brown, Mike Fredrick

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This concise, example-rich guide teaches Web professionals exactly what they need to know to build top-quality web applications with ColdFusion 5 -- fast. Working Web professionals will master ColdFusion by building real-world applications for a fictitious company -- and checking their work against finished applications deployed on a companion Web site. Like all books in the Essential Series for Web Professionals, Essential ColdFusion 5 for Web Professionals offers no-nonsense, practical coverage designed around actual application examples. Along the way, Micah Brown and Mike Fredrick cover each component of a working ColdFusion solution, starting with installation in both Windows and Linux…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 2/19/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Introduction
Database Basics
A Look at Relational Databases
Introduction to SQL
To Quote or Not to Quote?
Creating an Access Database File
Setting Up an ODBC Connection
Retrieving Data
Query of Queries
Dynamic Datasources
SQL Builder
Recap
ColdFusion Basics
Commenting Your Code
Using Quotes
Passing Variables
Scope
Passing Variables
Countdown
Date Display
Recap
Advanced Project
Global Templates
Defining the Application File (application.cfm)
Setting Global Values
Defining Header and Footer Files
Recap
Advanced Project
Building on Online Catalog
Building an Administration Screen
Setting Up the Administration Screen
Viewing Items in Your Database
Uploading Files
Adding New Records
Editing an Existing Record
Processing the Information
Creating User Pages
Recap
Advanced Project
Error Checking and Logging
Trapping Your Errors with [left angle bracket]CFERROR[right angle bracket]
"Catching" Your Errors
Project II: Using [left angle bracket]CFTRY[right angle bracket], [left angle bracket]CFCATCH[right angle bracket], and [left angle bracket]CFTHROW[right angle bracket]
Snooping Through Your Logs
Recap
Sending E-Mail
[left angle bracket]CFMAIL[right angle bracket]
[left angle bracket]CFFORM[right angle bracket]
[left angle bracket]CFINPUT[right angle bracket]
Sign Up!
[left angle bracket]CFPOP[right angle bracket]
Retrieving Your E-mail from a POP Server
Recap
Advanced Project
Searching the Site
PreserveSingleQuotes
[left angle bracket]CFTABLE[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]CFCOL[right angle bracket]
Search Engines 'R' Us
Using Verity with ColdFusion
Collection Management
Searching with Verity
Recap
Advanced Project
Knowing Who's Who
Security Basics
Protecting Your Management Templates
C Is for Cookie
Enhanced Functionality with [left angle bracket]CFCOOKIE[right angle bracket]
Recap
Advanced Project
Customizing Your Applications
Introduction to Custom Tags
The Ins and Outs of Custom Tags
Using Custom Tags
User-Defined Functions
Counting Your Hits
Creating a Random Product Custom Tag
Other Functions Used in This Project
User-Defined Functions (UDF)
Recap
Advanced Project
ColdFusion and Wireless
What Is WAP, and How Is It Useful?
MIME Types
WAP-Enabled Product List
Wireless Palm OS Devices (Web-Clipping)
Palm Handheld-Enabled Product List
Building and Installing the Palm Query Application
Recap
Advanced Project
Miscellaneous Tags
[left angle bracket]CFGRAPH[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]CFGRAPHDATA[right angle bracket]
Bar Chart
Pie Chart Using a Query
ColdFusion 5 Server Installation
System Requirements
Installing ColdFusion 5 Server on Windows Platforms
Installing ColdFusion 5 Server on Linux Platforms
Forget Your ColdFusion Server 5 Administrator Password?
Creating Forms
ColdFusion Reference
ColdFusion 5 Tags and Functions
Index