ColdFusion Introduction
Course Type
Private
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| This outline is available as a private course. Please contact us to arrange this course at a venue and date of your choice. |
Private courses can be held at your site or one of our training venues, and can be customised to fit your requirements.
You can choose to have a private course based on an existing outline or you can choose the most applicable lessons from a number of different outlines and consolidate them into one course.
We can also write bespoke courses to fit your specific requirements, whether you require training on a standard application or a bespoke inhouse system.
Please contact us to discuss this further on 0191 377 8377.
Course Overview
This course enables delegates to create dynamic sites with ColdFusion. During the course, delegates will add dynamic components to static web pages by applying ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) and posting pages to a ColdFusion Server.
Prerequisites
- Delegates must have attended Dreamweaver Levels 1, 2 and 3 or have equivalent knowledge
- Delegates must have attended HTML Introduction or have equivalent knowledge
- It is advisable that delegates have a working knowledge of cascading style sheets (CSS) and web design and usability techniques
- It would also be helpful to understand programming fundamentals including: Flow control, Variables, Operators, Functions, Parameters and Arrays
Objectives
Course Content
Adding Dynamic Elements to a Page
Determining appropriate dynamic elements
Adding a dynamic text display
Creating a banner
Determine Appropriate Dynamic Elements
Add a Dynamic Text Display
Create a Banner
Design page layout
Creating a dynamic site structure
Passing data to another web page through a link
Creating the default page
Retrieving information passed to a web page through a link
Building Forms
Creating a ColdFusion form
Adding client-side validation to a form
Creating a ColdFusion page to collect results
Creating a form that processes itself
Adding Interactivity with Existing Elements
Subscribing to a web service
Adding a custom tag from the Macromedia Developer Exchange
Deploying Your Site
Debugging your site
Testing work as a complete system
Transfering files to the web server
Displaying Database Information on a Web Page
Planning a database-driven site
Connecting to a database
Retrieving data from a database
Querying a query
Creating a Data Drill-down Application
Planning a data drill-down application
Building the drill-down output
Displaying Subsets of Data on Demand
Planning the recordset navigation scheme and components
Enabling recordset navigation
Outputting the number of next and previous records
Formatting data output based on the plan
Adding Search Features
Planning the search feature
Creating a dynamic search form
Developing the search results template
Handling "no records found" conditions
Adding single-keyword search functionality
Adding multiple-keyword search functionality
Creating Reusable Code
Creating a user defined function
Creating a custom tag
Preparing a custom tag to be shared
Training Options
- Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
- For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377
What's Included
- 1 delegate per computer
- Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
- Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
- Comprehensive course manual and exercises
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