Installing and Using ColdFusion MX

Introduction
Preparing to Install ColdFusion MX 7
Installing the Server Configuration
Installing the Multiserver Configuration
Installing the J2EE Configuration
Configuring Your System
Troubleshooting

Getting Started Building ColdFusion MX Applications

Introduction
Introducing ColdFusion MX
CFML Basics
Database Fundamentals
Lesson 1: Preparing to Build the Sample Application
Lesson 2: Configuring Your Development Environment
Lesson 3: Retrieving Data

A solution was needed. In July 1995, ColdFusion, a product from J. J. and Jeremy Allaire, was created. If you read Charles' Introduction, you already know that ColdFusion has a simple tag syntax that's both powerful and easy to learn. And, most important, it provides an easy way to connect to a backend database.

And with this great tool, there are ways to make a new kind of form that is far more dynamic and responsive. The modern form, created with ColdFusion, has five key characteristics:

1. Data awareness
2. Validation
3. Memory
4. Robustness

Why should you be interested in ColdFusion? As Charles tells all us webmasters, "if business likes it, you love it." And businesses love ColdFusion, because this database-to-Web gateway provides an effective and simple way to make a dynamic Web.

In this three-day tutorial, Charles starts by identifying those who could benefit from using ColdFusion. He then moves on to tackle some of the backend work: identifying a data source on the server and making the modifications needed to get the database ColdFusion-ready.

Table of Contents:

* Introduction

* Chapter 1- Why Cold Fusion?
* Chapter 2 - Introduction to Cold Fusion
* Chapter 3 - Prerequisites
* Chapter 4 - Installing and Administering Cold Fusion
* Chapter 5 - Designing an Application
* Chapter 6 - Database Fundamentals
* Chapter 7- Creating Databases and Tables
* Chapter 8- Introduction to SQL
* Chapter 9 - SQL Data Manipulation
* Chapter 10 - Cold Fusion Basics
* Chapter 11 - Cold Fusion Forms
* Chapter 12 - Using Forms to Add or Change Data

CONTENTS
CFML tags .............................................................
CFML functions ..................................................
Array functions ....................................................
Authentication functions .....................................
Conversion functions ...........................................
Date and time functions ......................................
Decision functions ...............................................
Display and formatting functions .........................

My interest in cold fusion began shortly after Profs. Pons and Fleischmann announced their claims in 1989, while I was but an ordinary conventional research scientist working at LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory). Of the numerous attempts to duplicate the claims, I was fortunate in producing tritium as well as anomalous energy. There is nothing like seeing a phenomenon for yourself to make a person believe that it is real, regardless of what less observant people might claim.