Adobe Coldfusion Training Courses

Introducing Adobe ColdFusion

• Advantages of Dynamic Web Pages
• Introducing Adobe ColdFusion
• Exploring Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• Creating Adobe Cold Fusion 8 Variables
• Displaying Variable Values
• Including Files
• Commenting Code

Working with ColdFusion 8

• Exploring Dreamweaver
• Developing ColdFusion Applications
• Creating Local Variables with
• Referencing Variables
• Displaying Variables Using
• Include Files Using the Tag
• Creating Comments

Publishing Database Content

• Connecting to a Database
• Querying a Database Table
• Viewing Debug Data
• Displaying Database Data
• Using the Dynamic Table Tool
• Additional Information Returned with Queries
• Using Adobe ColdFusion 8 Functions

Building Forms with Adobe ColdFusion

• Understanding HTML Forms
• Enabling Debug Output
• Self-Posting Forms
• Determining Form Submission
• Evaluating Form Variables
• Introducing Adobe ColdFusion 8 Forms

Building Search Interfaces

• Using Form Data in Dynamic Queries
• Preserving Form Data
• Creating Dynamic SQL
• Using Text Searches
• Using List Searches
  Building a Drill-Down Interface
• Using Dynamic URL Parameters
• Creating a Data Drill-Down

Inserting New Data

• Building an Insert Interface
• Building an Insert FORM Page
• Adobe ColdFusion Validation
• Building Insert ACTION Logic
• Redirection Process Flow

Updating Data

• Updating Database Data
• Building an Update FORM Page
• Building Update Logic

Reusing Templates

• Reusing Code
• Using Custom Tags
• Using User-Defined Functions
• Adobe ColdFusion 8 Components

Securing an Application

• Using the Adobe ColdFusion Login Wizard
• Customising the Login
• Using Application Variable

Introducing the Course

• Getting familiar with the course methodology and format
• Understanding the course objectives
• Understanding the course prerequisites
• Configuring your Application
• Using the Application Framework
• Introducing CFC syntax
• Configuring application settings
• Handling application and request events
• Locking shared scope variables
• Handling session events

Manipulating Lists and Queries

• Using lists
• Manipulating queries
• Summarizing and grouping data
• Transaction processing
• Querying a query

Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures

• Using arrays and structures
• Using built-in Adobe ColdFusion data structures
• Dynamically evaluating variables
• Combining data structures
• Accessing data by value or by reference

Building Adobe ColdFusion Components

• Reviewing Adobe ColdFusion Components
• Creating a static component
• Defining functions in components
• Invoking static CFC methods
• Using CFC self-generating documentation
• Creating instance based components
• Persisting CFC instances
• Using built-in components
• Inheriting methods, properties, and data between components
• Restricting access to component methods

Handling Errors and Exceptions

• Introducing error handling
• Customizing application error messages
• Understanding the try/catch methodology
• Learning about exception handling frameworks

Leveraging Code Reuse

• Writing code using
• Creating and nesting custom tags
• Using JSP tag libraries
• Calling a Java library

Creating Flash Forms

• Understanding Adobe Flash Forms
• Laying out Adobe Flash Forms
• Using data binding
• Working with a dynamic number of elements
• Setting default values for form fields
• Extending Adobe Flash Form interactivity with Adobe ActionScript
• Using
• Controlling form appearance
• Extending Adobe Flash Forms with custom components

Scaling Applications

• Understanding performance, robustness, and scalability
• Effectively configuring the Adobe ColdFusion server
• Identifying scalability bottlenecks in your code
• Caching record sets
• Using to cache generated page contents
• Caching entire page results
• Using asynchronous processes to improve performance
• Supporting concurrency

Interfacing with External Systems (optional)

• Retrieving data from web pages
• Retrieving external text
• Importing text into a query object
• Creating web services
• Calling external web services

Using XML (optional)

• Introducing XML and Creating XML documents
• Application of XML: Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
• Retrieving XML data from XML documents
• Validating an XML document
• Referencing data from an XML Document object
• Transforming XML to HTML