The ColdFusion 4.0 Web Application Construction Kit

The first two editions of this book have become the standard tutorials and definitive references for ColdFusion application development!

This new version has been greatly enhanced and updated to cover ColdFusion 4 and ColdFusion Studio 4. Much of the book has been rewritten from scratch, all chapters have been updated, and many new chapters have been added to cover new technologies and advanced topics. Some of the topics covered in this book include: understanding data driven web pages, and how to build web based applications, web interface ideas, including multi-part forms, data drill-down, and frames, using ColdFusion Studio, performing database lookups, insert update and delete operations, calling stored procedures, and constructing dynamic SQL statements, client-side form field validation using dynamically generated JavaScript, and enhancing HTML forms with drop-in Java form controls, project management, session state management, and remote development, creating online e-commerce applications, performing real-time credit card authorization and authentication, executing scheduled events, integrating with SMTP (to send E-Mail) and POP (to retrieve E-Mail), configuration and administration tips and tricks, tips on debugging and troubleshooting, and using the remote debugger, a complete tag reference, alphabetical listings of all tags, with detailed explanations and usage examples, a complete function reference, organized by category, complete with explanations, examples, and cross references, and much much more!

Also included is an introduction to ODBC, SQL, and relational database design.

The accompanying CD contains evaluation versions of ColdFusion 4 Enterprise Edition and ColdFusion Studio 4, and all the code listings from the book. As a special bonus, the CD also contains over 30 third-party add-on tags and utilities that you may use within your ColdFusion applications.

I hope you find this new edition to be a valuable ColdFusion resource. And if you are an experienced ColdFusion developer, be sure to check out my other ColdFusion book, Advanced ColdFusion 4 Development, ISBN 0789718103.

On behalf of myself, the contributing authors, and the publisher, good luck with ColdFusion, and happy coding!