Working with Complex Data in Macromedia ColdFusion 5

Overview/Description
To describe how to use persistent variables to maintain state in web applications, provide an overview of ColdFusion scripting, and outline how to use complex data types, such as arrays, structures, and queries

Target Audience
Web and enterprise application developers who have had an introduction to ColdFusion development and wish to learn advanced development techniques

Prerequisites
The Macromedia ColdFusion 5: Foundation learning path or equivalent experience; at least three months experience developing and deploying ColdFusion web applications; practical experience of SQL data manipulation commands, including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE; practical experience of HTML

Expected Duration
320 Minutes

Objectives:

Working with Complex Data in Macromedia ColdFusion 5

  • describe how persistent state variables maintain state in web applications and how to use application variables.
  • describe how client and server variables are used to maintain the state of a web application.
  • describe how to use request variables to pass data to custom tag pages.
  • describe ColdFusion scripting and use the CFSCRIPT tag to leverage ColdFusion scripting functionality.
  • to use ColdFusion Script to apply conditional processing.
  • explain how to create an array and print out its contents.
  • describe how to use array functions and loop through arrays.
  • create a two-dimensional array and print its contents using the CFLOOP tag.
  • outline how to create and populate structures and output structure values.
  • describe how to use structure functions and loops to manipulate structures.
  • outline built-in ColdFusion data structures, describe how to combine arrays and structures, and differentiate between associative arrays and structures.
  • create and loop through a complex ColdFusion variable.
  • assess the significance of the query object, and explain how to group query output and use functions to manipulate queries.
  • use the group attribute to group data returned by a query.
  • describe how to use ColdFusion to create database transactions.
  • enhance query performance by querying a query and by caching queries.
  • run a query against an existing query and output the result set.


    • Course Number: 63171_eng