Running ColdFusion on your
Web Server
by:
Fusionen Freddal
Designing a Website in ColdFusion
Linux, Solaris, and Windows Servers can run
an application called ColdFusion for accessing
web pages. A request for web pages is made
through an HTTP server in conjunction with a
ColdFusion Web Application Server. When a
request for a ColdFusion web page is made, the
ColdFusion Server assembles the data and sends
it back to your web browser.
ColdFusion can help you create and modify
variables just like other languages, but it's
not a database language. Program flow controls
like IF, Switch Case, Loop, plus many other
complicated tasks are made easy with its built
in functions. Using ColdFusion makes
interacting with your database easier. By
using SQL, you can easily retrieve, store,
format and dynamically present information on
you web page.
If you are comfortable with HTML you will
love ColdFusion Markup Language. Many of
ColdFusions powerful features like reading
from and writing to the server's hard drive
are tag based. Wouldn't it be nice if you
didn't have to write all the JavaScript for
your pages? The CF tag CFFORM will
automatically build all the JavaScript code to
verify required fields before the form
submits.
ColdFusion is designed to run on
multi-processor machines and store your web
sites on a cluster of servers. This helps with
the biggest problems web designers have of
complex, high volume web sites.
Basically, if you have plans to have a web
site built that is more than just an
advertisement for your business, ColdFusion
enables you to perform many more functions.
You can spend a large amount of time building
a site and, over the years, adding more ideas
and therefore more complexity and more
functions.
Many new and powerful features are
available for Mcromedia's ColdFusion MX7. MX7
is the most significant release of ColdFusion
within the last ten years. You can create
dynamic web pages utilizing some of CodFusion
MX7 (13 min.) new features. These features are
faster and more cost- effective than many
other solutions on the market. They can help
you easily create, manage and deploy web
applications. Using a single tab, web content
can be transformed into portable documents in
PDF and FlashPaper formats.
Coldfusion makes it possible to create rich
Flash forms in minutes using just a few
ColdFusion tags. You can re-skin forms easily
across applications. Besides, you can easily
interface to SMS text-messaging, instant
messaging clients, and other Internet
protocols to reach customers in new, exciting
ways.
It's time you explored ColdFusion MX7 and
experienced the power that ColdFusion has to
offer by browsing code snippets, examining
sample applications, and seeing new features
in action.
Many of our ColdFusion customers include
organizations like Boeing, Goodyear, and
Lockheed Martin along with many other
organizations, education facilities and
government offices. ColdFusion MX 7 is
considered to be an incredible release with
nearly everything desirable incorporated in
the software. With ColdFusion MX 7, you can do
more work in less time.
