Running ColdFusion on your Web Server
October 3, 2007 · Print This Article
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.
