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Inside ColdFusion™ MX
By John Cummings, Neil Ross, Robi Sen
Publisher	: New Riders Publishing
Pub Date	: August 13, 2002
ISBN	: 0-7357-1304-9
Pages	: 864
	Copyright
		About the Authors
		About the Contributors
		About the Technical Reviewers
		Acknowledgments
		Tell Us What You Think
		Introduction
			Who This Book Is For
			Overview
			Conventions
		Chapter 1.  ColdFusion Starts Here
			The History
			ColdFusion MX Overview
			Summary
		Chapter 2.  Preparing Your Environment
			Installing and Configuring ColdFusion
			Working with Dreamweaver MX
			Integration of ColdFusion Studio
			Summary
		Chapter 3.  Before You Begin Coding Application Planning
			Application Architecture
			Application Layers
			Resource Planning
			Development Methodologies
			Summary
		Chapter 4.  Fundamentals of ColdFusion Development
			Basic CFML
			Bringing Data to the Browser
			Interacting with Database Records
			Summary
		Chapter 5.  Reusing Code
			CFINCLUDE
			Custom Tags
			CFX Custom Tags
			User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
			Summary
		Chapter 6.  ColdFusion Components
			Building Your First CFC
			Advanced ColdFusion Component Development
			Summary
		Chapter 7.  Complex Data Types
			Using CFDUMP
			Queries
			Lists
			Arrays
			Structures
			Summary
		Chapter 8.  Application Framework
			Web Statelessness
			Locking Shared Variable Access
			Application Framework
			Application Variables
			Session Variables
			User Sessions
			Server Variables
			Cookies
			Client Variables
			Summary
		Chapter 9.  Error Handling
			Error Types
			Try/Catch/Throw Routines
			Custom Errors
			Site-Wide Error Handlers
			Summary
		Chapter 10.  Regular Expressions
			Basic Syntax
			Metacharacters
			POSIX Character Classes
			Finding Strings
			Replacing Strings
			Summary
		Chapter 11.  Working with Email
			Preparing Your Environment
			CFMAIL
			CFPOP and Message Management
			Summary
		Chapter 12.  Working with Files
			CFFILE
			CFFTP
			CFDIRECTORY
			CFREGISTRY
			Summary
		Chapter 13.  CFScript
			Benefits
			CFScript Syntax
			Commenting Code
			Conditional Programming
			Working with Data Structures
			Looping
			For Loop
			do-while
			break
			Functions
			Output
			Handling Exceptions
			Summary
		Chapter 14.  Debugging
			Debugging and the ColdFusion Administrator
			CFTRACE
			Summary
		Chapter 15.  CFML Coding: Best Practices
			Considering Code Maintenance
			Coding for Performance
			Summary
		Chapter 16.  Further Extending Your Applications
			Working the Web the Power of CFHTTP and CFCONTENT
			CFOBJECT and COM
			Flash Remoting with ColdFusion
			Summary
		Chapter 17.  Common Application Development Requirements
			Application Security
			Content Management
			E-Commerce
			Personalization
			Summary
		Chapter 18.  Enhancing Application Performance with Caching
			Caching Strategies
			Summary
		Chapter 19.  Introduction to XML and ColdFusion MX
			XML 101
			Understanding Document Type Definitions
			Working with XML Schemas
			XML Syntax Rules
			Creating XML
			Using XML with ColdFusion MX
			Summary
		Chapter 20.  Advanced XML
			How ColdFusion Parses XML
			Using XML-Related Technologies
			Working with WDDX
			Summary
		Chapter 21.  Web Services and ColdFusion
			Web Service Basics
			Communication
			Description and Discovery
			Finding Web Services with UDDI
			Invoking a Web Service
			Building Web Services
			Other Web Service Options with ColdFusion
			Summary
		Chapter 22.  Leveraging J2EE
			A Bit of Background on J2EE
			ColdFusion and JSP
			Working with Java Classes and Java Beans
			Dealing with Java Exceptions
			Working with EJBs
			Summary
		Chapter 23.  Working with Databases
			Relational Databases
			Working with SQL
			Stored Procedures
			Transactions
			Summary
		Chapter 24.  Advanced Database Interaction
			Dynamic SQL
			Query Caching
			Query of Queries (CFSQL)
			Summary
		Chapter 25.  Administering the ColdFusion Server
			Server Settings
			Data and Services
			Debugging and Logging
			Extensions
			Security
			Summary
		Chapter 26.  Performance Optimization and Scalability Planning
			Measuring Performance
			Enhancing Scalability
			Load Testing
			Summary
		Chapter 27.  Migration to ColdFusion MX
			Using the Code Compatibility Analyzer
			Deprecated or Changed CFML Tags
			Deprecated or Changed CFML Functions
			Summary
		Chapter 28.  ColdFusion Tips and Tricks
			Design for Reusability
			Validating Data Received from the Client
			Use Application.cfm to Make Your Code Faster and More Portable
			Using Session Variables with Care
			Protect Yourself
			Establishing Standard Prefixes in Your ColdFusion Code
			Server-Side Redirections in CFMX
			Group Totals and Details in One Database Query
			Storing and Displaying Hierarchical Data
			Summary
		Appendix A.  Tag Reference
			CFABORT
			CFAPPLET
			CFAPPLICATION
			CFARGUMENT
			CFASSOCIATE
			CFAUTHENTICATE (Obsolete)
			CFBREAK
			CFCACHE
			CFCASE
			CFCATCH
			CFCHART (New in MX)
			CFCHARTDATA
			CFCHARTSERIES
			CFCOL
			CFCOLLECTION
			CFCOMPONENT
			CFCONTENT
			CFCOOKIE
			CFDEFAULTCASE
			CFDIRECTORY
			CFDUMP
			CFELSE
			CFELSEIF
			CFERROR
			CFEXECUTE
			CFEXIT
			CFFILE
			CFFLUSH
			CFFORM
			CFFTP
			CFFUNCTION
			CFGRAPH
			CFGRID
			CFGRIDCOLUMN
			CGGRIDROW
			CGGRIDUPDATE
			CFHEADER
			CFHTMLHEAD
			CFHTTP
			CFHTTPPARAM
			CFIF
			CFIMPORT
			CFINCLUDE
			CFINDEX
			cfinput
			cfinsert
			cfinvoke
			cfinvokeargument
			cfldap
			cflocation
			cflock
			cflog
			CFLOGIN (New in MX)
			CFLOGINUSER (New in MX)
			cflogout (New in MX)
			cfloop
			cfmail
			CFMAILPARAM
			cfmodule
			CFOBJECT
			CFOBJECTCACHE
			cfoutput
			cfparam
			cfpop
			cfprocessingdirective
			cfprocparam
			cfprocresult
			cfproperty
			cfquery
			cfqueryparam
			cfregistry
			cfreport
			cfrethrow
			cfreturn
			CFSAVECONTENT
			cfschedule
			cfscript
			cfsearch
			CFSELECT
			CFSERVLET
			CFSERVLETPARAM
			CFSET
			CFSETTING
			CFSILENT
			CFSLIDER
			CFSTOREDPROC
			cfswitch
			cftable
			cftextinput
			cfthrow
			cftrace
			cftransaction
			cftree
			cftreeitem
			cftry
			cfupdate
			cfwddx
			cfxml
		Appendix B.  Function Reference
			Abs
			ACos
			ArrayAppend
			ArrayAvg
			ArrayClear
			ArrayDeleteAt
			ArrayInsertAt
			ArrayIsEmpty
			ArrayLen
			ArrayMax
			ArrayMin
			ArrayNew
			ArrayPrepend
			ArrayResize
			ArraySet
			ArraySort
			ArraySum
			ArraySwap
			ArrayToList
			Asc
			ASin
			Atn
			BitAnd
			BitMaskClear
			BitMaskRead
			BitMaskSet
			BitNot
			BitOr
			BitSHLN
			BitSHRN
			BitXor
			Ceiling
			Chr
			Cjustify
			Compare
			CompareNoCase
			Cos
			CreateDate
			CreateDateTime
			CreateObject
			CreateODBCDate
			CreateODBCDateTime
			CreateODBCTime
			CreateTime
			CreateTimeSpan
			CreateUUID
			DateAdd
			DateCompare
			DateConvert
			DateDiff
			DateFormat
			DatePart
			Day
			DayOfWeek
			DayOfWeekAsString
			DayOfYear
			DaysInMonth
			DaysInYear
			DE
			DecimalFormat
			DecrementValue
			Decrypt
			DeleteClientVariable
			DirectoryExists
			DollarFormat
			Duplicate
			Encrypt
			Evaluate
			Exp
			ExpandPath
			FileExists
			Find
			FindNoCase
			FindOneOf
			FirstDayOfMonth
			Fix
			FormatBaseN
			GetAuthUser
			GetBaseTagData
			GetBaseTagList
			GetBaseTemplatePath
			GetClientVariablesList
			GetCurrentTemplatePath
			GetDescriptor_html
			GetDirectoryFromPath
			GetException
			GetFileFromPath
			GetFunctionList
			GetHttpRequestData
			GetHttpTimeString
			GetK2ServerCollections
			GetK2ServerDocCount
			GetK2ServerDocCountLimit
			GetLocale
			GetMetaData
			GetMetricData
			GetPageContext
			GetProfileSections
			GetProfileString
			GetServiceSettings
			GetTempDirectory
			GetTempFile
			GetTickCount
			GetTimeZoneInfo
			GetToken
			Hash
			Hour
			HTMLCodeFormat
			HTMLEditFormat
			IIf
			IncrementValue
			InputBaseN
			Insert
			Int
			IsArray
			IsBinary
			IsBoolean
			IsCustomFunction
			IsDate
			IsDebugMode
			IsDefined
			IsK2ServerABroker
			IsK2ServerDocCountExceeded
			IsK2ServerOnline
			IsLeapYear
			IsNumeric
			IsNumericDate
			IsObject
			IsQuery
			IsSimpleValue
			IsStruct
			IsUserInRole
			IsWDDX
			IsXmlDoc
			IsXmlElement
			IsXmlRoot
			JavaCast
			JSStringFormat
			LCase
			Left
			Len
			ListAppend
			ListChangeDelims
			ListContains
			ListContainsNoCase
			ListDeleteAt
			ListFind
			ListFindNoCase
			ListFirst
			ListGetAt
			ListInsertAt
			ListLast
			ListLen
			ListPrepend
			ListQualify
			ListRest
			ListSetAt
			ListSort
			ListToArray
			ListValueCount
			ListValueCountNoCase
			LJustify
			Log
			Log10
			LSCurrencyFormat
			LSDateFormat
			LSEuroCurrencyFormat
			LSIsCurrency
			LSIsDate
			LSIsNumeric
			LSNumberFormat
			LSParseCurrency
			LSParseDateTime
			LSParseEuroCurrency
			LSParseNumber
			LSTimeFormat
			LTrim
			Max
			Mid
			Min
			Minute
			Month
			MonthAsString
			Now
			NumberFormat
			ParagraphFormat
			ParseDateTime
			Pi
			PreserveSingleQuotes
			Quarter
			QueryAddColumn
			QueryAddRow
			QueryNew
			QuerySetCell
			QuotedValueList
			Rand
			Randomize
			RandRange
			REFind
			REFindNoCase
			RemoveChars
			RepeatString
			Replace
			ReplaceList
			ReplaceNoCase
			REReplace
			REReplaceNoCase
			Reverse
			Right
			RJustify
			Round
			RTrim
			Second
			SetEncoding
			SetLocale
			SetProfileString
			SetVariable
			Sgn
			Sin
			SpanExcluding
			SpanIncluding
			Sqr
			StripCR
			StructAppend
			StructClear
			StructCopy
			StructCount
			StructDelete
			StructFind
			StructFindKey
			StructFindValue
			StructGet
			StructInsert
			StructIsEmpty
			StructKeyArray
			StructKeyExists
			StructKeyList
			StructNew
			StructSort
			StructUpdate
			Tan
			TimeFormat
			ToBase64
			ToBinary
			ToString
			Trim
			UCase
			URLDecode
			URLEncodedFormat
			URLSessionFormat
			Val
			ValueList
			Week
			WriteOutput
			XmlChildPos
			XmlElemNew
			XmlFormat
			XmlNew
			XmlParse
			XmlSearch
			XmlTransform
			Year
			YesNoFormat
		Index