Adobe ColdFusion Course outline

Lesson 1: Course Overview

• About the course
• Course objectives
• Course prerequisites
• Course format

Lesson 2: Introducing ColdFusion

• Advantages of dynamic web pages
• Using ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
• ColdFusion Components and Features
• Configuring ColdFusion environments
• Creating a site with Dreamweaver CS4
• Creating local variables with cfset
• Referencing variables
• Displaying variable values using cfoutput
• Including files using the cfinclude tag
• Creating comments

Lesson 3: Publishing Database Content

• Understanding Relational Databases
• Using Database Drivers to connect to data sources
• Understanding the cfquery tag
• ColdFusion Administrator debugging
• Using <cfoutput> to display database data
• Using the Dynamic Table Tool
• Additional information returned with queries
• Using ColdFusion Functions

Lesson 4: Building Forms with ColdFusion

• Understanding HTML forms and form controls
• Enabling debug output
• Self-Posting forms
• Determining form submission with cfif and IsDefined()
• Evaluating form variables
• The cfparam tag
• Converting to ColdFusion forms
• Using cfselect

Lesson 5: Building Search Interfaces

• Using form data in dynamic queries
• Preserving form data
• Creating dynamic SQL
• Using multiple search criteria
• Creating a dynamic SQL statement
• Using text searches
• Using list searches

Lesson 6: Building a Drill-Down Interface

• Using Dynamic URL parameters
• Creating a Query String
• Dynamic URL Parameters
• Creating a data drill-down
• Data drill-down page

Lesson 7: Inserting New Data

• Building an Insert FORM Page
• Using ColdFusion Validation
• Using Client-side Validation
• Using Server-side Validation
• Creating Custom Validation
• Building Insert ACTION Logic
• Using cfquery with INSERT
• Redirecting Process Flow with the cflocation tag

Lesson 8: Updating Data

• Building an Update FORM Page
• Providing the primary key for update
• Pre-Filling HTML Forms
• Building Update Logic with cfquery

Lesson 9: Reusing Templates

• Reusing Code
• Using Custom Tags
• Using User-Defined Functions
• Finding UDFs
• ColdFusion Components
• Finding CFCs

Lesson 10: Securing an Application

• Using the ColdFusion Login Wizard
• Understanding the Login Pages
• Customizing the Login
• Using the Application Framework
• Using Application Events
• Using Application Variables
• Using Session Variables

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

• Getting to know the course methodology and format
• Understanding the course objectives
• Understanding the course prerequisites

Unit 2: Configuring your Application

• Using the Application Framework
• Introducing CFC syntax
• Configuring application settings
• Handling application events
• Handling request events
• Locking shared scope variables
• Handling session events

Unit 3: Manipulating Lists and Queries

• Using lists
• Manipulating queries
• Summarizing and grouping data
• Transaction processing
• Querying a query

Unit 4: Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures

• Using arrays
• Using structures
• Using built-in ColdFusion data structures
• Dynamically evaluating variables
• Combining data structures
• Accessing data by value or by reference

Unit 5: Building ColdFusion Components

• Reviewing ColdFusion Components
• Creating a static component
• Defining functions in components
• Invoking static CFC methods
• Using CFC self-generating documentation
• Creating instance based components
• Persisting CFC instances
• Using built-in components
• Inheriting methods, properties, and data between components
• Restricting access to component methods

Unit 6: Handling Errors and Exceptions

• Introducing error handling
• Customizing application error messages
• Understanding the try/catch methodology
• Learning about exception handling frameworks

Unit 7: Leveraging Code Reuse

• Writing code using <cfscript>
• Creating custom tags
• Nesting custom tags
• Using JSP tag libraries
• Calling a Java library

Unit 8: Creating Flash Forms

• Understanding Flash Forms
• Laying out Flash Forms
• Using data binding
• Working with a dynamic number of elements
• Setting default values for form fields
• Extending Flash Form interactivity with ActionScript
• Using <cfgrid>
• Controlling form appearance
• Extending Flash Forms with custom components

Unit 9: Scaling Applications

• Understanding performance, robustness, and scalability
• Effectively configuring the ColdFusion server
• Identifying scalability bottlenecks in your code
• Caching recordsets
• Using <cf_Accelerate> to cache generated page contents
• Caching entire page results
• Using asynchronous processes to improve performance
• Supporting concurrency

Unit 10: Interfacing with External Systems

• Retrieving data from web pages
• Retrieving external text
• Importing text into a query object
• Creating web services
• Calling external web services

Unit 11: Using XML

• Introducing XML
• Creating XML documents
• Application of XML: Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
• Retrieving XML data from XML documents
• Validating an XML document
• Referencing data from an XML Document object
• Transforming XML to HTML

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.