Adobe Fast Track to ColdFusion 9

Description

This Adobe Fast Track to ColdFusion 9 training course provides experienced web developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to start building and maintaining dynamic and interactive web applications using ColdFusion 9.

Audience

To gain the most from this class, students should:

Be familiar with web terminology.
Have an understanding of web server characteristics.
Have experience with HTML tag set and syntax.
Be familiar with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE

Course Length

3 Days

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introducing Fast Track to ColdFusion 9

Introducing Mastery Learning
Understanding the course format
Reviewing the course prerequisites
Reviewing the course outline

Unit 2: Introduction to ColdFusion

Dynamic HTML generation
CFML and ColdFusion
ColdFusion Administrator
ColdFusion data sources
WT1: Configuring ColdFusion

Unit 3: Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder

Creating ColdFusion variables
WT1: Creating local variables
Using variables from HTML forms
Displaying variable values
WT2: Outputting variables to screen
Commenting code
If statements
WT3: Using conditional logic
Reusing code with cfinclude
WT4: Use cfinclude to include a header

Unit 4: Publishing Database Content

Connecting to a database
Querying a database table
Viewing debug data
Dumping a recordset to a browser
WT1: Creating a query and dumping the data
Displaying database data
WT2: Displaying data
Using the resultset structure data

Unit 5: Publishing Database Content (continued)

Introducing CurrentRow
Using URL data in dynamic queries
WT3: Building a dynamic query
Creating dynamic SQL for multiple search criteria
Query params and caching
WT4: Add query params and caching

Unit 6: Complex Variable Types

Using ColdFusion functions
WT1: Displaying the current date
Looping over data
Working with lists
WT2: Searching for animals
Working with arrays
WT3: Display news using an array
Working with structures
WT4: Using an array of structures

Unit 7: ColdFusion Components

Reusing code
Using custom tags
WT1: Using custom tags
Creating user defined functions
WT2 Searching for animals using a user defined function
Introduction to components
WT3: Creating a component

Unit 8: Introduction to Object Oriented ColdFusion

Instance based components
Caching instances
WT1: Create a component
Variables and scopes
WT2: Creating a constructor with arguments
Adding methods to a component
Property getters and setters
WT3: Adding methods and properties

Unit 9: The Application Framework

Addressing the web's statelessness
Using the application framework
Configuring application settings
WT1: Configuring application settings
ColdFusion scopes
Handling application events
WT2: Handling application events
Handling request events
WT3: Responding to request events
Locking shared scope variables
Handling session EventsUsing session events
OnServerStart()
ApplicationStop()