ColdFusion is a commercial repid web application development platform
application invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995.
ColdFusion is one of the easiest programming environments to use, and
enables you to create powerful server-side web applications very
quickly, with much less code than other technologies such as ASP, PHP
etc. It integrates many Internet technologies such as XML, Java, web
services.
ColdFusion consists of two main elements:
A ColdFusion server (which runs on top of your web server)
ColdFusion templates (or files), which you write using ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML).
ColdFusion enables you to build large, complex, and dynamic websites.
ColdFusion can also increase your productivity both in development time
and maintenance time.
To build ColdFusion applications, you first need to install the
ColdFusion server. Installing ColdFusion is just like installing any
other piece of software . You simply click your way through the
installation wizard, configuring it as you go.
Once you've installed ColdFusion server, you can write code using the
ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). CFML uses a syntax like HTML and XML.
This makes it easy to learn if you're familiar with HTML or XML. CFML
however, is more powerful than HTML - it is basically a programming
language. You can write conditional statements, loops, query a database,
send bulk emails, publish web services and much more.
ColdFusion Syntax refers to a set of rules that determine how the
ColdFusion application will be written by the programmer, and
interpreted by the ColdFusion Server. These rules are referred to as the
ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). CFML is, as the name would suggest, a
markup language that programmers need to use when they create a
ColdFusion application. It consists of a number of tags. Similar to
HTML, these usually consists of an opening tag and a closing tag, and
are surrounded by greater than and less than symbols. Closing tags have a
forward slash after the less than symbol. ColdFusion tags can also
contain one or more attributes.
Tag Syntax for ColdFusion
Code/text that is affected by the surrounding tags.
Code Example
ColdFusion code:
#firstname#
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