Programming ColdFusion
Programming ColdFusion By Rob Brooks-Bilson
August 2001
Pages: 974

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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introducing ColdFusion

    1. What Is Allaire's ColdFusion?

    2. ColdFusion Architecture

    3. Getting Started with ColdFusion

  2. Chapter 2 ColdFusion Basics

    1. Getting Started

    2. Datatypes

    3. Variables

    4. Expressions

    5. Writing Output

    6. Conditional Processing

    7. Looping

    8. Including Other Templates

  3. Chapter 3 Passing Data Between Templates

    1. Passing Parameters via URL

    2. Passing Data Using Forms

    3. Dealing with Nonexistent Parameters

  4. Chapter 4 Database Basics

    1. Configuring Data Sources

    2. Introducing CFQUERY

    3. A Quick SQL Primer

    4. Retrieving and Displaying Data

    5. Sorting Query Results

    6. Grouping Output

    7. Looping Over a Query Result Set

    8. Formatting Techniques

  5. Chapter 5 Maintaining Database Records

    1. Inserting Records

    2. Updating Existing Records

    3. Deleting Records

  6. Chapter 6 Complex Datatypes

    1. Lists

    2. Arrays

    3. Structures

    4. Query Objects

  7. Chapter 7 Maintaining State

    1. Setting Up the Web Application Framework

    2. Using Persistent Variables

    3. Browser Redirection

    4. Portal Example

  8. Chapter 8 Security

    1. Security Basics

    2. Implementing Security from Scratch

    3. Using ColdFusion's Built-in Advanced Security Services

  9. Chapter 9 Error and Exception Handling

    1. Basic Exception Handling

    2. Custom Exception Handling

    3. Rethrowing Exceptions

    4. Error Handling Within the Web-Application Framework

    5. Server-wide Error Handling

  10. Chapter 10 Dynamic Form Controls

    1. Combining HTML and CFML Form Controls

    2. Data Validation

    3. Basic Input Controls

    4. Textual Input

    5. A Selection Control

    6. Sliders

    7. Grids

    8. Trees

    9. Custom Controls

    10. Form Controls in Version 5.0

  11. Chapter 11 Advanced Database Techniques

    1. Display Techniques

    2. Drill-Down Queries

    3. Query Caching

    4. Advanced SQL

    5. CFSQL

    6. Calling Stored Procedures

    7. Transaction Processing

  12. Chapter 12 Manipulating Files and Directories

    1. Working with Directories

    2. Dealing with Files

    3. Performing FTP Operations

  13. Chapter 13 Working With Email

    1. Sending Email

    2. Dealing with Undeliverable Email

    3. Retrieving Messages

    4. Building a Web-Based Email Client

  14. Chapter 14 Interacting with Other Web Servers Using HTTP

    1. Retrieving Information

    2. Parsing Data

    3. Generating Static HTML Pages

    4. Posting Information

    5. CFHTTP Considerations

  15. Chapter 15 Interfacing with LDAP-Enabled Directories

    1. LDAP Basics

    2. Querying an LDAP Directory

    3. Modifying LDAP Entries

    4. Modifying the Distinguished Name

  16. Chapter 16 Working with the Verity Search Interface

    1. Creating Collections

    2. Populating Collections

    3. Searching Collections

    4. The Verity Search Language

    5. Updating Collections

    6. Maintaining Collections

    7. Advanced Techniques

  17. Chapter 17 Regular Expressions in ColdFusion

    1. Regular-Expression Syntax

    2. Finding Strings

    3. Replacing Strings

    4. Back References

    5. Useful Regular Expressions

    6. Input Considerations

    7. Regular Expression Builder

  18. Chapter 18 Scripting

    1. Scripting Syntax

    2. Writing Output

    3. CFScript Statements

    4. User-Defined Functions

  19. Chapter 19 Creating Custom Tags

    1. Getting Started

    2. Calling Custom Tags

    3. Passing Data

    4. Returning Data

    5. Attribute Validation and Error Handling

    6. Advanced Techniques

    7. Protecting Your Tags

    8. CFX Tags

  20. Chapter 20 Sharing Data with WDDX

    1. WDDX Basics

    2. Serializing and Deserializing Data

    3. Storing WDDX Packets

    4. Server-to-Server WDDX

    5. Server-to-Browser WDDX Using JavaScript

  21. Chapter 21 Working with the System Registry

    1. Getting Registry Keys and Values

    2. Setting Registry Keys and Values

    3. Deleting Registry Keys and Values

  22. Chapter 22 Using the ColdFusion Scheduler

    1. Scheduling Tasks with the ColdFusion Administrator

    2. Scheduling Tasks with CFSCHEDULE

    3. Additional Considerations

  23. Chapter 23 Calling External Objects

    1. Connecting to External Objects

    2. Executing Programs

    3. Invoking Java Servlets

  24. Chapter 24 Graphing and Charting

    1. Creating a Simple Graph

    2. Graphing Query Results

    3. Drilling Down on Graph Data

  1. Appendix A Tag Reference

    1. Tags by Type

    2. Alphabetical List of Tags

    3. CFABORT

    4. CFADMINSECURITY

    5. CFAPPLET

    6. CFAPPLICATION

    7. CFASSOCIATE

    8. CFAUTHENTICATE

    9. CFBREAK

    10. CFCACHE

    11. CFCASE

    12. CFCATCH

    13. CFCOL

    14. CFCOLLECTION

    15. CFCONTENT

    16. CFCOOKIE

    17. CFDEFAULTCASE

    18. CFDIRECTORY

    19. CFDUMP

    20. CFELSE

    21. CFELSEIF

    22. CFERROR

    23. CFEXECUTE

    24. CFEXIT

    25. CFFILE

    26. CFFLUSH

    27. CFFORM

    28. CFFTP

    29. CFGRAPH

    30. CFGRAPHDATA

    31. CFGRID

    32. CFGRIDCOLUMN

    33. CFGRIDROW

    34. CFGRIDUPDATE

    35. CFHEADER

    36. CFHTMLHEAD

    37. CFHTTP

    38. CFHTTPPARAM

    39. CFIF

    40. CFIMPERSONATE

    41. CFINCLUDE

    42. CFINDEX

    43. CFINPUT

    44. CFINSERT

    45. CFINTERNALDEBUG

    46. CFLDAP

    47. CFLOCATION

    48. CFLOCK

    49. CFLOG

    50. CFLOOP

    51. CFMAIL

    52. CFMAILPARAM

    53. CFMODULE

    54. CFNEWINTERNALADMINSECURITY

    55. CFNEWINTERNALREGISTRY

    56. CFOBJECT

    57. CFOBJECTCACHE

    58. CFOUTPUT

    59. CFPARAM

    60. CFPOP

    61. CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE

    62. CFPROCPARAM

    63. CFPROCRESULT

    64. CFQUERY

    65. CFQUERYPARAM

    66. CFREGISTRY

    67. CFREPORT

    68. CFRETHROW

    69. CFSAVECONTENT

    70. CFSCHEDULE

    71. CFSCRIPT

    72. CFSEARCH

    73. CFSELECT

    74. CFSERVLET

    75. CFSERVLETPARAM

    76. CFSET

    77. CFSETTING

    78. CFSILENT

    79. CFSLIDER

    80. CFSTOREDPROC

    81. CFSWITCH

    82. CFTABLE

    83. CFTEXTINPUT

    84. CFTHROW

    85. CFTRANSACTION

    86. CFTREE

    87. CFTREEITEM

    88. CFTRY

    89. CFUPDATE

    90. CFWDDX

  2. Appendix B Function Reference

    1. Array Functions

    2. Alphabetical List of Functions

    3. Abs

    4. ACos

    5. ArrayAppend

    6. ArrayAvg

    7. ArrayClear

    8. ArrayDeleteAt

    9. ArrayInsertAt

    10. ArrayIsEmpty

    11. ArrayLen

    12. ArrayMax

    13. ArrayMin

    14. ArrayNew

    15. ArrayPrepend

    16. ArrayResize

    17. ArraySet

    18. ArraySort

    19. ArraySum

    20. ArraySwap

    21. ArrayToList

    22. Asc

    23. Asin

    24. Atn

    25. AuthenticatedContext

    26. AuthenticatedUser

    27. BitAnd

    28. BitMaskClear

    29. BitMaskRead

    30. BitMaskSet

    31. BitNot

    32. BitOr

    33. BitSHLN

    34. BitSHRN

    35. BitXor

    36. Ceiling

    37. CFusion_DBConnections_Flush

    38. CFusion_Decrypt

    39. CFusion_Disable_DBConnections

    40. CFusion_Encrypt

    41. CFusion_GetODBCDSN

    42. CFusion_GetODBCINI

    43. CFusion_SetODBCINI

    44. CFusion_Settings_Refresh

    45. CFusion_VerifyMail

    46. CF_GetDataSourceUserName

    47. CF_IsColdFusionDataSource

    48. CF_SetDataSourcePassword

    49. CF_SetDataSourceUserName

    50. Chr

    51. CJustify

    52. Compare

    53. CompareNoCase

    54. Cos

    55. CreateDate

    56. CreateDateTime

    57. CreateObject

    58. CreateODBCDate

    59. CreateODBCDateTime

    60. CreateODBCTime

    61. CreateTime

    62. CreateTimeSpan

    63. CreateUUID

    64. DateAdd

    65. DateCompare

    66. DateConvert

    67. DateDiff

    68. DateFormat

    69. DatePart

    70. Day

    71. DayOfWeek

    72. DayOfWeekAsString

    73. DayOfYear

    74. DaysInMonth

    75. DaysInYear

    76. DE

    77. DecimalFormat

    78. DecrementValue

    79. Decrypt

    80. DeleteClientVariable

    81. DirectoryExists

    82. DollarFormat

    83. Duplicate

    84. Encrypt

    85. Evaluate

    86. Exp

    87. ExpandPath

    88. FileExists

    89. Find

    90. FindNoCase

    91. FindOneOf

    92. FirstDayOfMonth

    93. Fix

    94. FormatBaseN

    95. GetBaseTagData

    96. GetBaseTagList

    97. GetBaseTemplatePath

    98. GetClientVariablesList

    99. GetCurrentTemplatePath

    100. GetDirectoryFromPath

    101. GetException

    102. GetFileFromPath

    103. GetFunctionList

    104. GetHTTPRequestData

    105. GetHTTPTimeString

    106. GetK2ServerCollections

    107. GetK2ServerDocCount

    108. GetK2ServerDocCountLimit

    109. GetLocale

    110. GetMetricData

    111. GetProfileString

    112. GetTempDirectory

    113. GetTempFile

    114. GetTemplatePath

    115. GetTickCount

    116. GetTimeZoneInfo

    117. GetToken

    118. Hash

    119. Hour

    120. HTMLCodeFormat

    121. HTMLEditFormat

    122. IIf

    123. IncrementValue

    124. InputBaseN

    125. Insert

    126. Int

    127. IsArray

    128. IsAuthenticated

    129. IsAuthorized

    130. IsBinary

    131. IsBoolean

    132. IsCustomFunction

    133. IsDate

    134. IsDebugMode

    135. IsDefined

    136. IsK2ServerDocCountExceeded

    137. IsLeapYear

    138. IsNumeric

    139. IsNumericDate

    140. IsProtected

    141. IsQuery

    142. IsSimpleValue

    143. IsStruct

    144. IsWDDX

    145. JavaCast

    146. JSStringFormat

    147. Lcase

    148. Left

    149. Len

    150. ListAppend

    151. ListChangeDelims

    152. ListContains

    153. ListContainsNoCase

    154. ListDeleteAt

    155. ListFind

    156. ListFindNoCase

    157. ListFirst

    158. ListGetAt

    159. ListInsertAt

    160. ListLast

    161. ListLen

    162. ListPrepend

    163. ListQualify

    164. ListRest

    165. ListSetAt

    166. ListSort

    167. ListToArray

    168. ListValueCount

    169. ListValueCountNoCase

    170. LJustify

    171. Log

    172. Log10

    173. LSCurrencyFormat

    174. LSDateFormat

    175. LSEuroCurrencyFormat

    176. LSIsCurrency

    177. LSIsDate

    178. LSIsNumeric

    179. LSNumberFormat

    180. LSParseCurrency

    181. LSParseDateTime

    182. LSParseEuroCurrency

    183. LSParseNumber

    184. LSTimeFormat

    185. LTrim

    186. Max

    187. Mid

    188. Min

    189. Minute

    190. Month

    191. MonthAsString

    192. Now

    193. NumberFormat

    194. ParagraphFormat

    195. ParameterExists

    196. ParseDateTime

    197. Pi

    198. PreserveSingleQuotes

    199. Quarter

    200. QueryAddColumn

    201. QueryAddRow

    202. QueryNew

    203. QuerySetCell

    204. QuotedValueList

    205. Rand

    206. Randomize

    207. RandRange

    208. REFind

    209. REFindNoCase

    210. RemoveChars

    211. RepeatString

    212. Replace

    213. ReplaceList

    214. ReplaceNoCase

    215. REReplace

    216. REReplaceNoCase

    217. Reverse

    218. Right

    219. RJustify

    220. Round

    221. RTrim

    222. Second

    223. SetLocale

    224. SetProfileString

    225. SetVariable

    226. Sgn

    227. Sin

    228. SpanExcluding

    229. SpanIncluding

    230. Sqr

    231. StripCR

    232. StructAppend

    233. StructClear

    234. StructCopy

    235. StructCount

    236. StructDelete

    237. StructFind

    238. StructFindKey

    239. StructFindValue

    240. StructGet

    241. StructInsert

    242. StructIsEmpty

    243. StructKeyArray

    244. StructKeyExists

    245. StructKeyList

    246. StructNew

    247. StructSort

    248. StructUpdate

    249. Tan

    250. TimeFormat

    251. ToBase64

    252. ToBinary

    253. ToString

    254. Trim

    255. Ucase

    256. URLDecode

    257. URLEncodedFormat

    258. Val

    259. ValueList

    260. Week

    261. WriteOutput

    262. XMLFormat

    263. Year

    264. YesNoFormat

  3. Appendix C Example Database Tables

  4. Appendix D ColdFusion Resources

    1. Official Allaire Resources

    2. Magazines

    3. Community Resources

    4. User Groups

  5. Colophon

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