Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion® in 21 Days

Day 15. Using Lists, Structures, and Arrays to Package Data

You're now beginning your third week of developing with ColdFusion, and the concept of variables probably seems like old hat. You've learned how to generate both form variables and query variables, and have learned how to pass them from one template to another. In today's lesson you'll learn how to assemble a bunch of variable values into packages called lists, arrays, and structures. By using these unique data packages, you can save loads of coding time and handle tricky situations you never thought possible. We'll cover

• Defining and assigning values to lists, arrays, and structures

• Reading data from a package

• The uses and advantages of lists, arrays, and structures

• Using data packages ...