CREATING ADVANCED QUERIES
The Query Object
Toolbox:
Summarising and grouping data
Transaction processing
Querying a query
Query caching
MANIPULATING DATA WITH STRUCTURES
Creating structures
Manipulating structures with functions
Toolbox: variable naming conventions
Looping Over structures
Using built-in ColdFusion data structures
Dynamically evaluating variables
WORKING WITH LISTS AND ARRAYS
Understanding lists
Understanding arrays
Manipulating arrays with functions
Looping Over arrays
Combining data structures
Accessing data by value or reference
PERSISTING DATA ACROSS PAGES
Persistent variables
Application variables
Locking shared-scope variables
HTTP cookie variables
Session variables
Client variables
Toolbox: WDDX
BUILDING USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS
Introducing user-defined functions
Creating user-defined functions
Using variables in functions
Passing arguments to UDFs
Storing UDFs
STRUCTURING APPLICATIONS WITH COLDFUSION COMPONENTS
Introducing components
Creating a static component
Using CFC self-generating documentation
Invoking CFC methods
Instance-based components
Creating instance-based components
Persisting CFC instances
REUSING CODE WITH CUSTOM TAGS
Custom tag attributes
Setting results on the calling page
Calling custom tags
Toolbox: graphing data with
Using End Tags (optional)
HANDLING ERRORS
Introducing error handling
Customising application error messages
Understanding the Try/Catch methodology
Error-handling strategies
SEARCHING WITH VERITY
Searching documents using Verity
Toolbox: self-posting forms
Searching recordsets using Verity
Comparing document and record-
set searching
Beyond Verity basics
EXCHANGING DATA ACROSS THE INTERNET
Introducing
Retrieving text with
Retrieving WDDX packets with
Introducing XML
Creating XML documents
Retrieving XML data from XML documents
Using web services
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