Getting Started with Macromedia ColdFusion MX Tutorial for HTML Developers
This tutorial is designed for visual page designers who would like to take the next step to making dynamic web applications using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Macromedia ColdFusion MX.
This tutorial lays the foundation for creating dynamic web applications. Using these tutorials, you will not only create dynamic sections for a company intranet, but also learn how easy it is to get started and why dynamic applications will help you build better applications, faster. Once you are comfortable building dynamic applications, you will have fewer pages to edit, update and maintain. You’ll also be able to provide more accurate information to the users of your web applications.
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Steps for Building Dynamic Pages
This document outlines step-by-step directions for building a dynamic Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 database-driven web page that pulls data from multiple database tables and references images stored on the server.
The steps for this tutorial are:
STEP 1: Setting Up the Development Environment
STEP 2: Setting Up Dreamweaver MX 2004
STEP 3: Starting With Static HTML, and Reviewing the Database Data
STEP 4: Connecting the Database to ColdFusion
STEP 5: Learning Some Structured Query Language (SQL) Statements
STEP 6: Writing ColdFusion Code
STEP 7: Optimizing the Code with ColdFusion Components (CFCs)
The page you build in this tutorial displays artwork by various artists.
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ColdFusion File Uploading Tutorial
When I first discovered ColdFusion, the first thing I wanted to learn was how to upload files to my website’s database from my web browser. It’s not that hard to do, I just found it difficult to find a good tutorial explaining how to do it. Hopefully this helps you.
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Deploying CFML on ASP.NET Using BlueDragon
This document describes how to install BlueDragon.NET and run CFML applications via the Microsoft IIS web server and the .NET framework, without requiring the installation of proprietary Adobe ColdFusion server software. See section 6 for details on the technical underpinnings of how BlueDragon.NET is implemented.
This document also offers a brief overview of the .NET Framework. More importantly, it explains the many benefits of .NET deployment for CFML developers. It discusses the many forms of integration that are possible between CFML pages and native .NET components, including ASP.NET pages. Section 3 discusses these many benefits, and the details and code examples of integrating CFML and ASP.NET are detailed in a separate document, Integrating CFML with ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
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