Coldfusion 8: Advanced

Overview:

Adobe ColdFusion 8: Advanced Development provides ColdFusion application developers with knowledge and hands-on practice that is needed to build, maintain, and scale effective web applications.

Description:

Who Should Attend:
Web developers with ColdFusion experience will learn advanced techniques and develop the ability to create and manipulate complex data in queries, array and structures.
   
Prerequisites:
Fast Track to ColdFusion or equivalent experience. Experience developing web applications. Practical experience using CFML tags, functions and variables. Practical experience with the SQL command set, include select, insert and update.

We require students to be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a mac or pc operating system.
   
   
Course Outline:  
   
LESSON 1: Introducing the Course
About the course
Course objectives
Course prerequisites
Course format
Internet Applications: The Big Picture

LESSON 2: Creating Advanced Queries
The Query Object
Toolbox
Summarizing and grouping dataTransaction
processingQuerying a queryQuery coach

LESSON 3: 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

LESSON 4: Working with Lists and Arrays
Understanding lists
Understanding arrays
Manipulating arrays with functions
Looping over Arrays
Combining Data structure
Accessing data by value or reference

LESSON 5: Persisting Data Across pages
Persistent VariablesApplication
VariablesLocking Shared Scope
VariablesSession VariablesClient
VariablesToolbox: WDDX

LESSON 6: Building User-Defined Functions
Introducing User-Defined Functions
Creating User-Defined Functions
Using Variables in Functions
Pagging Arguments to UDFs
Storing UDFs
 LESSON 7: Structuring Applications with ColdFusion Components
Introducing ColdFusion Components
Creating a Static Component
Using CFC Self-Generating Documentation
Invoking CFC Methods
Instance-Based Components
Persisting CFC Instances

LESSON 8: Reusing Code with Custom Tags
Understanding Custom Tags
Custom Tag Attributes
Setting Results on the Calling Page
Calling Custom TagsToolbox: Graphing data with custom tags and end tags

LESSON 9: Handling Errors
Introducing Error Handling
Customizing Application Error Messages
Understanding the Try/Catch methodology
Error Handling Strategies

LESSON 10: Searching with Verity
Searching Documents using Verity
Toolbox: Self posting forms
Searching record sets using verity
Comparing Document and Record Set
searching
Beyond Verity Basics

LESSON 11: Exchanging Data Across the Internet
Exchanging Data over the Internet
Introducing
Retrieving text with
Retrieving WDDX Packets with
Introducing XML
Creating XML Documents
Retrieving XML Data from XML Documents
Using Web Services