Adobe ColdFusion 9 : Mastering the Essentials

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Course Overview

ColdFusion 9 Fundamentals 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 9

 

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Objectives

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

 

Adobe Cold Fusion Essentials – 3 Days Schedule

Day 1

09.00am – 10.00am

Course Overview

  • About the course
  • Course objectives
  • Course prerequisites
  • Course format
10.00am – 10.30am

Breakfast

10.30am – 12.45pm

Introducing ColdFusion

  • Advantages of dynamic web pages
  • Using ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
  • ColdFusion Components and Features
  • Configuring ColdFusion environments
  • Creating a site with Dreamweaver CS4
  • Creating local variables with cfset
  • Referencing variables
  • Displaying variable values using cfoutput
  • Including files using the cfinclude tag
  • Creating comments

12.45pm – 02.15pm

Lunch

02.15pm – 05.00pm

Publishing Database Content

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

Day 2

09.00am – 10.00am

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

10.00am – 10.30am

Breakfast

10.30am – 12.45pm

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

12.45pm – 02.15pm

Lunch

02.15pm – 05.00pm

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

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

Day 3

09.00am – 10.00am

Updating Data

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

10.00am – 10.30am

Breakfast

10.30am – 12.45pm

Reusing Templates

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

12.45pm – 02.15pm

Lunch

02.15pm – 05.00pm

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