Extending your ColdFusion 5 Toolkit

Overview/Description
To describe how to syndicate web content using WDDX, create graphs with cfgraph, and manage files on a web server

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
2:50 Hours

Objectives:

Extending your ColdFusion 5 Toolkit

  • discuss the need for web syndication and explain how to create agents using the CFHTTP tag.
  • explain how WDDX works and describe how to use CFWDDX to implement syndication.
  • describe how to use CFWDDX to serialize complex data types, such as arrays and structures.
  • serialize arrays using CFWDDX and transmit the serialized information using CFHTTP.
  • describe how to use graphs effectively in ColdFusion applications and explain how to create pie and bar graphs.
  • create a pie graph using CFGRAPH and CFGRAPHDATA.
  • explain how to use the CFFILE tag to upload files to a web server, to manage files on a web server, and to manipulate text files on a web server.
  • use the CFFILE tag to upload a file to a web server.
  • use CFCONTENT to instruct ColdFusion to handle non-HTML files, or files that reside outside a mapped web directory.


    • Course Number: 63192_eng