Introduction to ColdFusion

Adobe ColdFusion 11 Enterprise Edition offers a single platform to rapidly build and deploy scalable, high-performing web and mobile applications.

Content on the web often has a shelf life. You may have information that you want up after a certain point in time or you may want it to be gone after a certain time.You may want to have it appear and disappear without having to be editing files or changing out input in some back end system. You will find that you can build a simple system for publishing and removing info with ColdFusion's CFIF tag and CreateDateTime() and Now() functions.

ColdFusion makes it easy to select data out of a database and display it on a page. As soon as you feel good about your success in crossing the divide from static to dynamic, someone will say "That's nice, can you group the list by author?". Whether you are asked to group things by author, make, brand, year or whatever, ColdFusion has you covered with its grouping capabilities.

We all start out learning ColdFusion by outputing variables using CFOUTPUT and some pound signs. A variable with an name like myvariable was passed to the page by a form or a link and output as #myvariable#. By not understanding and using scope, we unwittingly add inefficiencies to our code and overlook a lot of advantages that come with using scopes.

ColdFusion custom tags are ColdFusion templates just like any other CFML file but are designed to be reused. Coders can save much time by packaging code that is used frequently or can easily add functionality by using free or inexpensive custom tags. There are two general categories of custom tags, one uses only ColdFusion's CFML code. The other packages C++, Java, or other languages into a custom tag that is used by ColdFusion. We'll cover only CFML based tags in this article.

This article discusses what structs are and how to use them to expand ColdFusion's ability to manipulate data. A must read for all ColdFusion developers.

In the first in a series of articles, we take a look at ColdFusion's built-in data structures. We begin with a look at arrays, including multi-dimensional arrays.

Variable scope is an essential aspect of ColdFusion development. Once you figure out how to make the best use of it, you'll find that your applications are more secure and easier to maintain.

Understanding what constitutes a list in ColdFusion and how to make the best use of lists is absolutely essential for all ColdFusion developers.

Cold Fusion CHM (Compiled HTML) manual, same as PHP Manual in CHM. Very usable. Speeds up your CFM developement

This tutorial will guide you to creating your first ColdFusion template. Once you learn the basic, you will be ready for more advanced tutorials. It will work from basic to intermediate and advanced levels.

This 5-page tutorial explains what ColdFusion is, Who Needs It, Installing ColdFusion, Identifying a data source on the server and making the modifications needed to get the database ColdFusion-ready.