Cold Fusion Advanced

Description

This class is a continuation of the Introduction to ColdFusion class. At the end of this class, students will be able to improve the processing of their data-driven web sites by creating user-defined functions and reusable components. Students will be able to include dynamic graphs from their database in their web applications. Students will be able to send email from their ColdFusion applications. Students will be able to create applications that gracefully recover from errors and will be able to package their data as XML for sending to other applications. Students will need access to ColdFusion Server. A free evaluation version is available.

Objectives

• Students will be able to identify various strategies for securing their ColdFusion applications.
• Students will be able to build user-defined functions, reusable components and custom tags.
• Students will be able to ColdFusion scripts to display records in groups, use to push part of page to the user before the complete page is ready, work with cached queries and caching page output.
• Students will be able to create advanced SQL queries, create queries of queries and use the tag to build effective queries.
• Students will be able to use and to handle errors in ColdFusion.
• Students will be able to read and write to files and schedule events at the server.
• Students will be able to write ColdFusion scripts and perform searches using Regular Expressions.
• Students will be able to work with XML data using ColdFusion.
• Students will explore interacting with email, creating printable documents and creating non-html content.
• Students will be able to ColdFusion to perform HTTP and FTP requests.

Book

Lesson 1: Securing an Application

MX7: Read Intro Chapter 21 and Advanced Chapters 7 - 10 (Focus on Chapters 21 and 7. Read the rest for additional information if you are interested)
8: Available as PDF http://forta.com/books/032151548X/CFWACK8-1-EChapters.pdf and Vol 3, Chapters 61 - 65 (Focus on the PDF file and read the rest for additional information if you are intersted)

Lesson 2: Building Reusable Components

MX7: Read Intro Chapters 22 and 23 and Advanced Chapters 18 and 19.
8: Vol 2, Chapters 24, 25, 26 and 27

Lesson 3: Improving Usability and Performance

MX7:Read Intro Chapters 24 and 25
8: Read Vol 2 Chapters 29 and 31

Lesson 4: Advanced Queries

MX7: Read Intro Chapters 30 and 31 (Note: These are on the CD)
8: Vol 3: Chapters 41 and 42

Lesson 5: Error Handling

MX7:Read Intro Chapter 32 (Note: This chapter is on the CD)
8: Vol 3 - Chapter 51

Lesson 6: Interacting with the Operating System and Scheduling Events

MX7: Read Intro Chapters 34 and 36 (Note: These chapters are on the CD).
8: Vol 2 - Chapter 40, Vol 3- Chapter 70

Lesson 7: ColdFusion Scripting and Regular Expressions

MX7: Read Advanced Chapters 12 and 13
8: Vol 3 - Chapters 43 and 44

Lesson 8: XML

MX7: Read Advanced Chapters 14 - 16.
8: Vol 3- Chapters 45, 46 and 47

Lesson 9: Miscellaneous Topics

MX7: Read Intro Chapters 16, 27 and 33 (on the CD)
8: PDF available from http://forta.com/books/032151548X/CFWACK8-1-EChapters.pdf, Vol 2 - Chapter 38

Lesson 10: Using Server-side HTTP and FTP

MX7: Read Advanced Chapter 21
8: Vol 3 - Chapter 67

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