Adobe ColdFusion 8 Advanced
3 days

Course overview
ColdFusion Advanced provides experienced ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice that they need to build, maintain, and scale effective web applications.

Who should attend
To gain the most from this class, you should already have attended the Introduction to ColdFusion course, three months experience developing and deploying ColdFusion web applications, practical experience using CFML tags, functions, and variables, and practical experience with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE.

Course contents
Creating Advanced Queries
The Query Object
Toolbox: <cfdump>
Summarizing and Grouping Data
Transaction Processing
Query of Queries
Query Caching

Manipulating Data with Structures
Understanding Structures
Creating Structures
Manipulating Structures with Functions
Toolbox: Variable Naming Conventions
Looping Over Structures
Using Built-In ColdFusion Data Structures
Dynamically Evaluating Variables

Working with Lists and Arrays
Understanding Lists
Understanding Arrays
Manipulating Arrays With Functions
Looping Over Arrays
Combining Data Structures
Accessing Data by Value or Reference

Persisting Data across Pages
Persistent Variables
Application Variables
Locking Shared Scope Variables
HTTP Cookie Variables
Session Variables
Client Variables
Toolbox: WDDX

Building User-Defined Functions
Introducing User-Defined Functions
Creating User-Defined Functions
Using Variables in Functions
Passing Arguments to UDFs
Storing UDFs

Structuring Applications with ColdFusion Components
Encapsulating Code
Creating a Static Component
Using CFC Self-Generating Documentation
Invoking CFC Methods
Instance-Based Components
Creating Instance-Based Components
Persisting CFC Instances

Reusing Code with Custom Tags
Understanding Custom Tags
Custom Tag Attributes
Setting Results on the Calling Page
Calling Custom Tags
Toolbox: Graphing Data With <cfchart>
(Optional) Using Custom Tags With End Tags

Handling Errors
Introducing Error Handling
Customizing Error Message Per Application
Understanding the Try/Catch Methodology
Error Handling Strategies

Searching with Verity
Searching Documents Using Verity
Toolbox: Self-Posting Forms
Searching Database Content Using Verity
Differences between document and database searching
Beyond the basics

Exchanging Data over the Internet
Exchanging Data Over the Internet
Introducing <cfhttp>
Retrieving Text with <cfhttp>
Retrieving WDDX Packets with <cfhttp>
Introducing XML
Creating XML Documents
Retrieving XML Data from XML Documents
Using Web Services

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