Fast Track to ColdFusion MX 7

Fast Track to ColdFusion MX 7 is a 3-day course that provides experienced Web developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to start building and maintaining dynamic and interactive Web applications using ColdFusion MX 7.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Set up and manage the ColdFusion MX development environment
• Use ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
• Connect to a database
• Build queries that retrieve, insert, and update data dynamically
• Perform client-side and server-side validation
• Authenticate users and secure access to pages
• Use local, query, form, and URL variables
• Re-use code
• Incorporate custom tags, user defined functions, and ColdFusion components into your application
• Create a search form
• Build a data drill-down interface
• Develop fully interactive, database-driven web applications

Fast Track to ColdFusion MX 7 is a 3-day course that provides experienced Web developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to start building and maintaining dynamic and interactive Web applications using ColdFusion MX 7.

Unit 1: Course Overview

• About the course
• Course objectives
• Course prerequisites
• Course format

Unit 2: Introducing ColdFusion

• Advantages of dynamic web pages
• Using ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
• ColdFusion Components and Features
• Configuring ColdFusion environments
• Creating a site with Dreamweaver MX 2004
• Creating local variables with cfset
• Referencing variables
• Displaying variable values using cfoutput
• Including files using the cfinclude tag
• Creating comments

Unit 3: Publishing Database Content

• Understanding Relational Databases
• Using Database Drivers to connect to data sources
• Understanding the cfquery tag
• ColdFusion Administrator debugging
• Using to display database data
• Using the Dynamic Table Tool
• Additional information returned with queries
• Using ColdFusion Functions

Unit 4: Building Forms with ColdFusion

• Understanding HTML forms and form controls
• Enabling debug output
• Self-Posting forms
• Determining form submission with cfif and IsDefined()
• Evaluating form variables
• The cfparam tag
• Converting to ColdFusion forms
• Using cfselect

Unit 5: Building Search Interfaces

• Using form data in dynamic queries
• Preserving form data
• Creating dynamic SQL
• Using multiple search criteria
• Creating a dynamic SQL statement
• Using text searches
• Using list searches

Unit 6: Building a Drill-Down Interface

• Using Dynamic URL parameters
• Creating a Query String
• Dynamic URL Parameters
• Creating a data drill-down
• Data drill-down page

Unit 7: Inserting New Data

• Building an Insert FORM Page
• Using ColdFusion Validation
• Using Client-side Validation
• Using Server-side Validation
• Creating Custom Validation
• Building Insert ACTION Logic
• Using cfquery with INSERT
• Redirecting Process Flow with the cflocation tag

Unit 8: Updating Data

• Building an Update FORM Page
• Providing the primary key for update
• Pre-Filling HTML Forms
• Building Update Logic with cfquery

Unit 9: Reusing Templates

• Reusing Code
• Using Custom Tags
• Using User-Defined Functions
• Finding UDFs
• ColdFusion Components
• Finding CFCs

Unit 10: Securing an Application

• Using the ColdFusion Login Wizard
• Understanding the Login Pages
• Customizing the Login
• Using the Application Framework
• Using Application Events
• Using Application Variables
• Using Session Variables