ColdFusion level 1 course - top

Description

Fast Track to ColdFusion is designed to teach experienced web developers how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using ColdFusion with Dreamweaver. The course is a task-based, with students learning by doing. During the 3-day class, students build a web application for a wholesale coffee company. Along with covering the basics of ColdFusion, the course focuses on best practices and design, stressing the importance of usability, optimization, and performance.

Adobe ColdFusion Level 1 Course outline

Unit 1: Course Overview

• Course objectives.
• Course prerequisites.
• Format
• Web applications: The next generation Internet.

Unit 2: Introducing ColdFusion

• Advantages of dynamic web pages.
• ColdFusion Markup Language.
• ColdFusion components and features.

Unit 3: Getting Started

• Working with ColdFusion.
• Exploring Dreamweaver.
• Developing ColdFusion Applications.
• Creating ColdFusion variables.
• Displaying variables.
• Using ColdFusion functions.
• Commenting code.

Unit 4: Publishing Database Content

• Connecting to a database.
• Querying a database table.
• Viewing debug data.
• Displaying database data.
• Renaming query columns.
• Using the Dynamic Table tool.
• Additional information returned with queries.

Unit 5: Reusing Templates

• Reusing code.
• Including pages from a different directory.
• Creating a ColdFusion mapping.
• Using custom tags.
• Using user-defined functions.
• ColdFusion components.

Unit 6: Building Forms with ColdFusion

• Understanding HTML forms.
• Enabling debug output.
• ColdFusion and forms.
• Conditional processing.
• Testing for form submission.
• Evaluating form variables.

Unit 7: Building Search Interfaces

• Using form data in dynamic queries.
• Using multiple search criteria.
• Text searches.
• List searches.

Unit 8: Building a Drill-Down Interface

• Using dynamic URL parameters.
• Creating a data drill-down.

Unit 9: Inserting New Data.

• Building an insert page.
• Building an insert form page.
• Server-side validation.
• Building an insert action page.

Unit 10: Updating Data

• Updating database data.
• Building an update form page.
• Pre-filling HTML forms.
• Client-side validation.
• Server-side versus client-side validation.
• Building an update action page.

Unit 11: Securing an Application

• Addressing the web’s statelessness.
• The Application framework.
• Application.cfm variables.
• Securing applications.
• Logging out.
• Using the GetAuthUser and IsUserInRole functions.

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ColdFusion level 2 course - top

Description

Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development provides ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice that they need to build, maintain, and scale effective web applications. Topics include using the Application Framework, manipulating complex data in arrays and structures, structuring your code with ColdFusion Components, gracefully handling errors and exceptions, encapsulating your user-interface with custom tags, creating and consuming web services, leveraging .NET assemblies, creating and manipulating PDF content, and working with highly interactive interfaces using Adobe Livecycle forms. This course focuses on creating and delivering scalable and well-performing applications.

Adobe ColdFusion Level 2 Course outline

Introducing the course

• About the Course
• Course Overview
• Prerequistes
• Course Format

Introduction to Components

• Creating ColdFusion Components
• Introducing CFC Syntax
• Invoking Static CFC Methods
• Using the Application Framework
• Logging with <cflog>
• Locking Shared Scope Variables

Manipulating Lists and Queries

• Creating Lists
• Manipulating Lists with Functions
• The Query Object
• Summarising and Grouping Data
• Transaction Processing
• Querying a Query
• Uploading Data with

Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures

• Using Arrays
• Manipulating Arrays with Functions
• Using Structures
• Manipulating Structures with Functions
• Looping over Structures
• Using Built-In ColdFusion Data Structures
• Combining Data Structures
• Copying Complex Variables with Duplicate()

Advanced Component Concepts

• Instance-Based Components
• Instantiating Instance-based Components
• Associating Data with Components
• Using the Getter/Setter Approach
• Restricting Method Invocation
• Restricting Component Methods by User Role
• Using Built-In Components
• Prototyping Components with

Handling Errors and Exceptions

• Introducing Error Handling
• Site-wide Error Handler
• Application-Wide Error Handling
• Implementing the try/catch Methodology
• Exception Handling Frameworks

Code and Content Reuse

• Creating Custom Tags
• Calling Custom Tags
• Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags
• .NET Integration with ColdFusion 8
• Creating Web Services
• Calling Web Services

Working with PDF Files and Forms

• Generate PDF Files from ColdFusion
• Manipulating PDF Files with
• Pre-filling PDF Forms
• Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion

Data and File Manipulation in ColdFusion

• Manipulating Image Data with
• Reading and Storing Image Data
• Image Processing
• Creating RSS Feeds
• Consuming RSS Feeds

Scaling Applications

• Caching Recordsets
• Caching Generated Results with
• Caching Entire Page Results
• Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance

 

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