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ColdFusion Training Audience
Web developers, Webmasters, and any persons responsible for the modification and enhancement of Internet, Intranet, or Extranet sites.
ColdFusion Training Prerequisites
- Basic familiarity with Web terminology
- Knowledge of the HTML tag set and syntax
- Basic knowledge of SQL (Select, Insert, Update, and Delete)
- Completion of an Introduction to ColdFusion course
- A minimum of two months extensive experience developing with ColdFusion is suggested
ColdFusion Training Learning Objectives
Our courseware is designed around class lectures, demonstrations, walkthroughs, and a class lab, which together will teach you to:
- Use Lists, Arrays, and Structures
- Use session variables and secure ColdFusion sites
- Use ColdFusion structured error handling
- Create graphs with <CFGRAPH>
- Integrate Verity search technology with ColdFusion
- Skillfully use <CFHTTP> and <CFFTP>
- Understand and use custom tags
- Use XML and ColdFusion, the WDDX specification
- Use ColdFusion scripting, <CFSCRIPT>
- Use advanced SQL with ColdFusion
- Extend ColdFusion with COM
At the end of three days, you will have the increased ColdFusion skills to continue your development of ColdFusion applications with much greater expertise.
ColdFusion Training Course duration
3 Days
ColdFusion Training Course outline
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Unit 1: Lists, Arrays, and Structures
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- Using advanced data types
- Working with ColdFusion lists
- Working with ColdFusion arrays
- Working with ColdFusion structures
- Understanding and using list, array, and structure functions
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Unit 2: Working with Sessions and ColdFusion Security
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- The Web's statelessness
- Using cookies
- Using client variables
- Using session variables
- Options for application security
- Using ColdFusion to control access
- Using session variables for authentication
- Creating a login page
- Verifying the login name and password
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Unit 3: Structured Error Handling
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- Catching errors as they occur
- Using <CFTRY> and <CFCATCH>
- Basic exception handling
- Templates that work around errors
- Templates that recover from errors
- Nesting <CFTRY> blocks
- Using <CFTHROW>
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Unit 4: Graphing
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- Using <CFGRAPH>
- Using <CFGRAPHDATA>
- File formats
- Building a graphing application
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Unit 5: Integrating Verity Search with ColdFusion
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- Becoming familiar with verity
- Searching for different types of files
- Creating a search tool for your documents
- Indexing SQL data
- Using <CFCOLLECTION> to administrate Verity
- Expanding Verity's power
- Understanding Verity's search
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Unit 6: Creating Intelligent Agents
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- Using <CFHTTP>
- Using <CFHTTPPARAM>
- Building a query from a text file
- Creating intelligent agents with <CFFTP>
- Using <CFFTP>
- Connecting with <CFFTP>
- Performing file and directory operations with <CFFTP>
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Unit 7: Custom Tags
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- The basic idea
- How to use custom tags
- The <CFMODULE> tag
- Using custom tags to display information
- Using <CFPARAM> to set default values
- Custom tags that process data
- Custom tags that encapsulate business rules
- Custom tags for general-purpose use
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Unit 8: ColdFusion and XML, the WDDX Specification
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- What is WDDX?
- The <CFWDDX> tag
- The CFML2WDDX action attribute
- The WDDX2CFML action attribute
- WDDX and JavaScript
- WDDX interface for COM
- Integrating with Active Server Pages
- Integrating with ColdFusion and JavaScript at once
- Integrating with Visual Basic
- Integrating with MS Office Applications
- Fetching WDDX packets with JavaScript
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Unit 9: ColdFusion Scripting
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- Understanding <CFSCRIPT>
- Why use <CFSCRIPT>?
- Tag overview
- Using <CFSCRIPT>
- Unsupported tags and functions
- Common errors and resolutions
- Creating your own functions
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Unit 10: Advanced SQL Topics
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- Using Distinct
- Using aggregate functions
- Selecting related data with joins
- Subqueries
- Using Union to combine two select queries
- Using Insert and Select to move data between tables
- Working with nulls
- Working with dates
- Understanding views
- Manipulating data with scalar functions
- Additional query topics
- Using <CFTRANSACTION>
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Unit 11: Extending ColdFusion with COM
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- Understanding COM
- Introduction to <CFOBJECT>
- Using COM
- Integrating with MS Word
- Integrating with MS Excel
- Integrating with Outlook and Exchange
- Scope of objects
- Troubleshooting COM
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