| Dale's test
of Dreamweaver & Cold
Fusion |
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Dale's start-of-site
page . . . . . . . . . Dreamweaver 2 Help
notes
....Some links to Dreamweaver pages:
....Link to a page that uses with Events
& Layers
....Some links to Cold Fusion pages:
....Link to a page discribing Cold Fusion TAG
Syntax
....Link to a page discribing Cold Fusion Database SQL
Syntax
........Link to the first Cold Fusion page (name): pg15.cfm
........Link to Database driven page pg16.cfm
.......Link to PageCreation STEPS page pg35.cfm
....Link to Test of Data Base Test-Teaching_DB
Cold Fusion links Database DATA to WEB pages (!dynamically)
....What is it :
The Cold Fusion link/page is stored on a directory controled by the
Cold Fusion Engine.
The Server software receives a request from your computers Browser
software and it see's that
the request is for a page with a CFM extension ( xxx.CFM ), the Server
passes the request to the
Cold Fusion Engine software and it retrieves the CFMpage.
View IE/NS address of "Test_Index.htm" ... http://tvnet/publiccf/Dale_temp/Test_Index.htm
EDIT-Save address...... file:////Tvnet/publiccf/Dale_temp/Test_Index.htm
Book............Cold Fusion Pro v2.0.....pg21
A *.cfm page has 4 elements
...........1 regular text ---- this is text
...........2 HTML Tags ------ <body> ---------------HyperText Markup
Languag
..............................................................see http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Markup/
.............................................................. especially
know "form"s
...........3 CFLM Tags ------ <CFoutput...-----------Cold Fusion
Markup Language
............................................TAG'd
..............................................................
...............................................................interact
with Databases
...............................................................send
E-mail
...............................................................build
HTML output
...............................................................manage
files
...............................................................work
with other Web applications
.............................................................. an Application
Programming interface
............................................Expressions
............................................Functions
................................................................Cold
Fusion V2.0 has 130 predefined Functions
................................................................Math...Bit
manipulation...Decision (If ....else)....String manipulation
................................................................Date
- Time...Administrative...System-level...formatting...List
...........4 SQL Tags -------- <Query...---------------Structured
Query (Database) Language
................all data stored in a Relational database is
organized into tables
Note: ODBC (Open Database Connectivity ....standard) is used
by Cold Fusion to access Databases
...each Database software creater provides a ODBC driver...
...each ODBC database can be given a logical name in an ODBC Administrator
Control Panes.
...Cold Fusion use the logical name and protocol
....Cold Fusion comes with a set of standard ODBC drivers to most popular
relational databases
CFquery attributes
.....name(Query)
....datasource(the ODBC logical name)
........maxRows(optional, can also be in the CFoutput statement){{
no "
........userName(optional, securtity item)
........passWord(optional, security item)
........timeOut....(optional, milliseconds, may NOT be supported by
the database ODBC driver)
................................................................................{{placed
<cfQuery.....> timeout=n </cfQuery>
........debug......(optional, shows info in the output!!!){{placed
<cfQuery.....> debug </cfQuery>
........then the SQL statement (multi line ok) example: select
all FROM tableNameABC
Note: CFquery statement is placed BEFOR any HTML statement
Note: after the CFquery, it's results can be used to dynamically
create an HTML page!
CFOUTPUT
Most flexible ways to display database date from a CFquery is to defime
CFML output section in your file (none as a template). Output can be linked
to a specific query (1) or contain content from multiple queries. A CFOUTPUT
tag can contain:
...Literal Text
...HTML tags
...References to query colums
...References to dynamic parameters( like; a HTML Form fields data)
...Functions
CFoutput Attributes
...Query (optional, name of the CFquery
...MAXrows(optional
...Group(optional, grouping for nested output
...StartRow(optional,
CFopuput syntax:
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="queryname" MAXROWS=N>
.....literal text, HTML tags, and Dynamic field references (ie
#Full_Fieldname#)
Note: Dreamweaver 2 tends to show a table as it
appears in MS Internet Explorer....!
Do a Table...because I want to fool around with re-setting
.......Table BoardersMenu...Insert> Table....had ...cellPAD=10 cellSPACING=50
Boarder=20
............................................rows=1 columns=2 width=400
heigth=notset
...........Select>Table...ADDs... Table Name
.............................................. Vspace=10 .......Hspace=80
.....................for IE................LightBoarder= DarkBoarder=
..............................................Bg .(image). ..
.......................................... ...Bg .(color). ..if NONE..page
color\pic shows on top & in cells
.....................for IE ....................................if
ANYTHING , color shows ....on ."............."
.....................forNS....................................if ANYTHING
, color shows in cells only
..................................................................if
.....................for NS..............Brdr .(color). ..1 color translated
by NS lite and dark areas |