By Jeremy Petersen Senior Developer TeachStream.com ColdFusion 4.5 comes bundled with a custom implementation of the Verity97 search engine. It gives ColdFusion users the ability to perform searches on database and file content. Even though Verity s power is well known a surprisingly small numbers of Web developers take advantage of it. To get the...

By Matt Reider Master Instructor Macromedia Inc. Click here to download a .zip file of this article. This document was created for the purpose of explaining a personal programming technique using ColdFusion. The document explains an example Web site in terms of logic ColdFusion architecture and file structure. This document is technical in nature...

When considering whether or not to upgrade from ColdFusion 4 to 4.5 you the Web developer must ask one simple question How will it help me do my job better To answer that question this article details the new features and improvements in ColdFusion 4.5 that ColdFusion developers will use most. In its development of ColdFusion 4.5 Allaire concentrated...

By Michael Stillman Sr. Technical Writer Macromedia Inc. The connection string was added to ColdFusion 5 in response to user requests for greater control when connecting to ODBC data sources. You can use the connection string to do tasks such as Specifying connection attributes that cannot be defined in the odbc.ini settings Limiting the number of...

By Hal Lichtin Sr. Technical Writer Macromedia Inc. Creating Variables Variable Characteristics Data Types Passing Variables to Custom Tags Functions Data Type Conversion Scopes Creating Variables A ColdFusion variable is created by assigning a value to it. Most commonly you create variables by using the CFSet tag. You can also use the CFParam...

By David Golden Senior Technical Writer Macromedia Inc. With Macromedia Flash and ColdFusion Server you can extend Web application user interfaces beyond static HTML. Using the Flash Player you can build rich highly-interactive Web applications and user interfaces including Ability to place objects and text anywhere on the page Flexible manipulation...

By Daryl Banttari Senior Consultant Allaire Consulting Scalability means never having to say We can t handle any more traffic." Many projects start small one ColdFusion Web server one database server. Then the development team encounters one of two motivating factors--the need for more uptime availability or the need for more capacity...

David Stanten Senior Product Support Engineer Macromedia Inc. Introduction What is the difference between an unresponsive request a request that has timed-out a long-running request and a cfquery timeout A firm understanding how ColdFusion differentiates between these can really help when it comes to troubleshooting bottlenecks in your site analyzing...

By Raymond Camden Editor s Note This article and supporting code are available in a ZIP archive file. Click here to download. In 1999 Allaire released a free version of ColdFusion called ColdFusion Express. This version of the ColdFusion server allowed you to use many but not all of the features of the ColdFusion Enterprise. One of the features...

By Malcom Gin Product Security Team Manager Allaire Corp. This is the first in a series of security-related columns for the Allaire DevCenter. This installment discusses the most prevalent security issues with server configurations and application implementations for ColdFusion. Future articles will discuss other security-related topics both for other...

Dennis Carothers Sr. Technical Writer Macromedia New and existing features make editing complex documents easier. Editing included files A new feature in HomeSite 5 and ColdFusion Studio 5 is the ability to open and edit included files from the tag that references them. The file reference in the calling tag must use an absolute or relative path to a...

by Ben Wakeman Allaire Premier Partner Digital Positions Inc. Atlanta GA Let s be honest from a presentation point of view Flash web sites leave everything else in the shade. No matter how elegant the script you wrote that grabs headlines from 206 different news sites and inserts them into an Oracle database to be indexed by Verity and spit out...

Capturing User Information By Tom Molyneux Fundere Software In Information Rules A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian write The other primary way to learn about your customers is by observing their on-line behavior. Most Web sites now allow users to search their contents. But the Web hosts rarely save users queries....

By Ben Forta Product Evangelist Allaire Corp. and David Golden Technical Writer Allaire Corp. Web applications are dynamic and should be data-driven wherever possible. After all the major distinction between Web site and Web application is that the former is static while the latter is anything but. It is Web applications that deliver the true power...

Summary of Part 2 This part discusses why legal intranets and extranets matter and how the investment in deploying these technologies can provide value. It discusses some of the lessons learned about implementing these systems and addresses some of the issues that lawyers may wish to consider as they think about legal intranet and extranet strategy....