Coldfusion Mx Developer's Cookbook

, by Freitag, Peter; Leupen, Brad; Reeves, Chris

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ISBN: 9780672324628 | 0672324628
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/9/2003

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ColdFusion is a rapid application development tool used to create Web sites throughout the Internet. The product's ease of use and capabilities allow even inexperienced developers to rapidly produce basic Web sites.TheColdFusion MX Developer's Cookbookfocuses upon teaching the use of ColdFusion's advanced features in the development of more complex Web sites -- Web sites that interact with other sites on the Internet, that are data-driven rather than static, and that are not necessarily confined to one server.Though the basics of ColdFusion are easily picked up by even novice programmers, many encounter difficulties when they attempt to master more advanced features because they lack formal training. TheColdFusion MX Developer's Cookbookprovides recipes and insights into ColdFusion, and along the way teaches some of the fundamentals of the development process.The recipes serve as templates for database access, custom tags, scripting, generating charts and graphs, and linking into other resources on the Web using SOAP and .NET.

Introduction	p. 1
How This Book Is Organized	p. 1
How to Use This Book	p. 1
Chapter Overviews	p. 2
Datatypes and Containers
String Manipulation	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Concatenating Strings	p. 7
Delimiting Strings	p. 8
Using ASCII Character Codes	p. 9
Forming Substring	p. 10
Encrypting Strings	p. 12
Hashing Strings	p. 13
Iterating Through a String	p. 14
Reading a File Line by Line	p. 15
Searching a String	p. 16
Replacing Substrings within a String	p. 17
Using REFind() to Perform a Literal String Search	p. 18
Using Qualifiers to Indicate Multiplicity	p. 19
Using Wildcards	p. 20
Using Brackets	p. 20
Performing OR Operations	p. 21
Escaping Special Characters	p. 21
Using Character Classes	p. 22
Working with Lists	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Creating Lists	p. 23
Changing Delimiters	p. 24
Extracting Elements	p. 25
Handling Empty Values	p. 26
Changing Values in a List	p. 28
Searching a List	p. 29
Sorting a List	p. 30
Adding Qualifiers to a List	p. 30
Looping Through a List	p. 31
Looping Over a Structure's Key List	p. 32
Looping Until a List Is Empty	p. 33
Parsing Input Forms	p. 34
Arrays	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
Creating an Array	p. 37
Adding an Element to an Array	p. 38
Displaying a Value in an Array	p. 39
Looping over an Array	p. 40
Manipulating Array Values	p. 41
Sorting an Array	p. 41
Multidimensional Arrays	p. 44
Creating Arrays with More Than Three Dimensions	p. 45
Array Aggregate Functions	p. 46
Array Utility Functions	p. 47
Array Information Functions	p. 48
Structures	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Creating a Structure	p. 52
Using Structure Information Functions	p. 52
Using Structure Management Functions	p. 53
Inserting Values into a Structure	p. 55
Updating Values in a Structure	p. 56
Displaying the Value of an Element in a Structure Using the Key Name	p. 57
Using Dot Notation	p. 58
Looping Over a Structure	p. 59
Using Structure Utility Functions	p. 60
Copying Structures	p. 61
Sorting Structures	p. 63
Queries	p. 67
Introduction	p. 67
Querying a Database	p. 67
Programmatically Creating Queries	p. 69
Displaying Query Results	p. 70
Using Query Variables	p. 71
Creating Queries of Queries	p. 73
Converting a Query Column to a List	p. 75
Caching a Query	p. 76
Dates and Times	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
Creating a Date, Time, or DateTime Object	p. 79
Formatting Dates	p. 80
Comparing Dates	p. 82
Determining Date Differences	p. 83
Formatting Times	p. 84
Defining Time Spans	p. 85
Using Date Information Functions	p. 86
Managing Dates and Times in Different Locales	p. 88
Controlling Application Flow
Application Flow	p. 91
Introduction	p. 91
Creating a ColdFusion Application	p. 91
Using the Application Variable Scope	p. 94
Implementing Session Management	p. 95
Implementing Client Management	p. 96
Storing Client State Using the Registry	p. 97
Storing Client State Using Cookies	p. 98
Storing Client State Using a Database	p. 99
Exception Handling	p. 101
Introduction	p. 101
Catching Exceptions	p. 103
Catching Multiple Exceptions	p. 104
Examining an Exception	p. 105
Throwing Exceptions	p. 107
Re-Throwing Exceptions	p. 108
Using Utility Tags
Charting Data	p. 113
Introduction	p. 113
Creating a Simple Chart	p. 113
Managing the Chart Container	p. 114
Managing Chart Series	p. 117
Populating a Chart Series with Explicit Values	p. 121
Populating Charts with Query Values	p. 121
Implementing Click-Through Behaviors in Charts	p. 122
Administering Charts Through the ColdFusion Administrator	p. 123
Files and Directories	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Reading Files	p. 125
Writing Files	p. 126
Appending to Files	p. 127
Uploading Files	p. 129
Manipulating Files	p. 132
Listing Directories	p. 134
Manipulating Directories	p. 136
Using Internet Protocols	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
HTTP Requests	p. 137
Sending Email	p. 140
Receiving Email	p. 140
Querying an LDAP Directory	p. 141
Adding an LDAP Entry	p. 143
Updating an LDAP Entry	p. 144
Adding and Deleting an LDAP Entry's Attributes	p. 145
Renaming an Entry	p. 146
Deleting an LDAP Entry	p. 147
Sending a File via FTP	p. 147
Getting a File via FTP	p. 148
Using Verity	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Creating a Collection	p. 151
Adding Information to a Verity Collection	p. 152
Searching a Verity Collection with Simple Search	p. 155
Searching a Verity Collection with Explicit Search	p. 157
User Authentication and Authorization	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Logging in a User	p. 160
Logging out a User	p. 160
Authenticating a User	p. 161
Obtaining the Logged-in User ID	p. 162
Authorizing a Block of Code	p. 162
Authorizing a Function	p. 164
Authentication Example	p. 165
Database Integration
Structured Query Language (SQL)	p. 181
Introduction	p. 181
Inserting Data	p. 183
Updating Data	p. 183
Deleting Data	p. 184
Selecting Data	p. 185
Limiting Rows Returned	p. 185
Specifying Multiple Conditions	p. 186
Sorting Results	p. 187
Using Aliases	p. 187
Selecting from Multiple Tables	p. 188
Joining Two Tables	p. 189
Joining Three Tables	p. 189
Grouping Data with CFOUTPUT	p. 190
Performing Outer Joins	p. 191
Selecting Unique Values	p. 192
Using Aggregate Functions	p. 192
Grouping Aggregate Data	p. 193
Limiting Aggregate Results	p. 194
Using the IN Keyword	p. 194
Using IN with Web Forms	p. 195
Matching a Wildcard Pattern	p. 196
Matching a Single Character	p. 197
Matching a Group of Characters	p. 198
Matching a Range of Characters	p. 198
Excluding a Group of Characters	p. 199
Excluding a Range of Characters	p. 199
Using Prepared Statements	p. 200
Stored Procedures	p. 203
Introduction	p. 203
Writing a Simple Stored Procedure in Microsoft SQL Server	p. 204
Writing a Simple Stored Procedure in Oracle	p. 205
Invoking a Simple Stored Procedure	p. 206
Writing a Stored Procedure with Parameters in Microsoft SQL Server	p. 207
Writing a Stored Procedure with Parameters in Oracle	p. 208
Invoking a Stored Procedure with Parameters	p. 209
Using Output Parameters	p. 211
Working with Multiple Result Sets	p. 213
Language Extensibility Features
User-Defined Functions	p. 217
Introduction	p. 217
Declaring a Function	p. 218
Function Arguments	p. 220
Returning Values	p. 222
Suppressing Output	p. 222
Recursive Functions	p. 223
Working with Function References	p. 225
ColdFusion Custom Tags	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
Creating a Simple Custom Tag	p. 229
Accessing a Custom Tag	p. 230
Using Attributes	p. 230
Returning a Result	p. 231
Adding Start and End Tags	p. 232
Building Nested Tags	p. 234
Encoding Custom Tags	p. 235
Using [left angle bracket]cfmodule[right angle bracket]	p. 236
Using [left angle bracket]cfimport[right angle bracket]	p. 237
CFX API Custom Tags	p. 239
Introduction	p. 239
Creating a Simple Java CFX Tag	p. 240
Using Tag Attributes	p. 241
Setting ColdFusion Variables	p. 244
Using Queries in Java CFX Tags	p. 245
A Simple C++ CFX Tag	p. 247
Using Tag Attributes	p. 250
Setting ColdFusion Variables	p. 251
Using Queries in C++ CFX Tags	p. 253
Installing a Java CFX Tag	p. 256
Installing a C++ CFX Tag	p. 257
Components	p. 259
Introduction	p. 259
Defining a Component	p. 259
Instantiating a Component	p. 262
Invoking a Component Method	p. 263
Component Inheritance	p. 265
Accessing a Component	p. 267
Using Component Meta Data	p. 268
Objects	p. 271
Introduction	p. 271
Creating a Java Object Instance	p. 271
Invoking Methods on an Object	p. 273
Using Properties on an Object	p. 275
Working with Java Objects	p. 275
Working with COM Objects	p. 276
Working with CORBA Objects	p. 277
WDDX	p. 281
Introduction	p. 281
CFML to WDDX	p. 281
CFML to JavaScript	p. 283
WDDX to CFML	p. 285
WDDX to JavaScript	p. 286
Syndicating Content with WDDX	p. 287
Converting a Java Object into WDDX	p. 290
Deserializing WDDX in Java	p. 292
XML	p. 295
Introduction	p. 295
Creating an XML Object with the [left angle bracket]cfxml[right angle bracket] Tag	p. 295
Creating an XML Object with the XmlNew () Function	p. 296
Creating an XML Object from Another XML Object	p. 298
Parsing an XML Document	p. 299
Accessing Attributes	p. 299
Accessing Children	p. 300
Accessing Inner Text	p. 300
Technique	p. 300
Comments	p. 301
Searching XML with XPath	p. 301
XSL Transformations	p. 302
Web Services	p. 305
Introduction	p. 305
Invoking a Web Service with CFINVOKE	p. 306
Creating an Instance of a Web Service	p. 307
Writing a Web Service	p. 308
Using Properties	p. 309
Deploying a Web Service	p. 311
Invoking a Web Service with .NET	p. 312
Invoking a Web Service with Java	p. 315
J2EE Interoperability	p. 317
Introduction	p. 317
Redirecting to a Servlet or JSP	p. 318
Including a Servlet or JSP	p. 318
Accessing ColdFusion Pages from Servlets and JSPs	p. 319
Sharing Data Between ColdFusion and Servlets/JSPs	p. 320
Accessing Enterprise Java Beans	p. 322
Appendixes
Online ColdFusion Resources	p. 329
ColdFusion Web Sites	p. 329
Java Web Sites	p. 331
XML Web Sites	p. 331
Other Useful Web Sites	p. 332
Security	p. 333
Session Hijacking	p. 333
URL Injection Hacking	p. 334
File Uploading	p. 335
Denial of Service Attacks	p. 335
Cross Site Scripting	p. 336
Sandbox Security	p. 337
Security Resources	p. 337
Migrating from ColdFusion 5 to ColdFusion MX	p. 339
ColdFusion Code Compatibility Analyzer	p. 339
ColdFusion Settings Migration Wizard	p. 339
Changes to CFML Tags and Functions	p. 340
Database Operations	p. 340
Localization	p. 340
References	p. 340
Converting Between Tags and Scripting	p. 341
The [left angle bracket]cfscript[right angle bracket] Tag	p. 341
If-Then Statements	p. 343
Loops	p. 343
Switch Statements	p. 345
Exception Handling	p. 346
Index	p. 347
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