Customer Reviews

The Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit

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Great book if you want learn what is the Cold Fusion. However, I had an error when I installed the single version cold fusion that it come with the book. I called the MCP/QUE user support but cut me off with the phone messages. I emailed them but no response.

Before I bought this book I had never heard of Cold Fusion (Except the Nuclear stuff in school). After using this book I had a database driven web site up in a week. If you are new to CF and do not have version 4.0, BUY IT! lots of great examples.

I have had this book for about a year and a half and I still find myself returning to it again and again (Probably because my memory isn't what it used to be). Introduces web designers to database creation for dynamic web page generation. Great examples that show how easy it is to create web to database integration. Shows uses of javascript with Cold Fusion. If you can't wait for Cold Fusion 4.0 to come out, get this one!

I picked up this book not even knowing what Cold Fusion was capable of doing and within days I was writting code that could be used within our organization. The size may intimidate, but it covers every topic you need to know. My only complaint is the brief (and confusing) manner in which session variables are explained - an important topic if you need to develop secure web sites.

I have had to make extensive use of some of the new 3.0 features. They are NOT covered here. This is the best organized & best written reference on the subject of Cold Fusion.Unfortunatley it is useless for 3.0 features, I had to use the online manual & the John Burke book to decipher them. To his credit he has not labeled the book 3.0, but he has not labeled it 2.0 either.

Typos, errors, missing information and files: The 'Crystal Reports' referenced as being bundled with the book on its accompanying CD-Rom does not exist(specifically file name CR50.EXE is mentioned starting on page 52 for installation but cannot anywhere be located on the diskette). The publisher has, so far, ignored two e-mail requests for correction. The book itself is laden with syntax errors that make testing of certain test code almost impossible. If you're going to rely on this book to get started, be prepared to spend hours and hours on fiddling with corrections of your own. In the vernacular, 'this sucker needs work!'

While I've been very impressed with the clear writing and highly practical instruction in this book, I've noted dozens of syntax, grammatical, spelling, and factual errors, on the order of one every ten pages or so. And this is a very long book. Be prepared to spend a few hours wondering why certain queries just won't work, until your programming buddies tell you that parameter passing to a web page is always done with a "?" and not a "&" as the book occasionally--and erroneously--asserts. If you can make it through the minefields, you'll learn quite a bit about relational databases, Cold Fusion Studio, and data-driven web sites, but not without a few battle scars...

The bookstores are cluttered with tons of books on how to do this and that, but Cold Fusion does not enjoy this kind of selection. I was very impressed with this book - it has helped me tremendously in cleaning up an old web site. All in all very well done, one of the few reference books that I have read cover to cover.

I found the content of this book to be excellent and has been a super aide for developing my first site. The problem I'm having is with the poor binding job of the book jacket which results in pages falling out immediately. I've taken two copies of the book back to the bookstore just to find they all have the same binding problem.

I read this book in two days and on the the third day I was writing code! A must have for any web developer who plans on integrating database functionality into their website. Looking forward to Ben's new book for Cold Fusion 3.1!