Foundation ColdFusion for Flash [Paperback]

Khan Fiaz (Author), Fiaz Khan (Author), Bryan Mahoney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2001

If, as a web designer, you're looking for a server-side scripting language with the power to build and deploy web applications, ColdFusion 5 is exactly what you need. Like ASP, ColdFusion can integrate e-mail, XML and information from databases. The result is a truly dynamic, responsive website with the fast, funky user-interface of Flash. What's more, now that a number of hosting companies are beginning to provide reasonably priced ColdFusion hosting, this intuitive tag-based technology is becoming increasingly accessible to professional web designers.

This book assumes you have a fairly good knowledge of Flash 5 while being a novice user of ColdFusion 5. The designer is led through chapters containing stand-alone tutorials, each reinforcing the others, until finally they build to form a complete a real-world case-study. The fundamentals of ColdFusion 5 will be introduced, particularly within the context of their use in a professional setting, and in conjunction with Macromedia Flash.

What you’ll learn

Who this book is for

• Professional designers who want an intuitive software package capable of integrating dynamic content into their site
• Designers who want to enhance the productivity of their site by integrating it with the ColdFusion server
• Readers of Foundation ActionScript or Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio who want to expand the capabilities of their Flash site

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From the Publisher

ColdFusion, the designer’s answer to ASP, is a tag-based language offering the fastest way to build and deploy powerful Web applications

ColdFusion 5, released in June 2001, is Macromedia’s Flash-friendly, Dreamweaver Ultradev-compatible server-side scripting language. With ColdFusion you can integrate email and XML along with information from databases, creating a truly dynamic and responsive website

In addition, several hosting companies have recognised the potential of this technology and are now beginning to provide reasonably priced ColdFusion hosting, making the technology eminently accessible

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Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: friendsofED; 1 edition (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903450403
• ISBN-13: 978-1903450406
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,322,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Seems like they rushed this book, October 11, 2001

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Aaron Weyenberg (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foundation ColdFusion for Flash (Paperback)

Having already built a site using Flash 5 and a ColdFusion backend, I was looking to improve my skills and learn some new methods. As it turns out, I skimmed the book looking for anything intuitive, and found myself very disappointed.

If you can ignore the countless grammatical and spelling errors (which seem to average 1 per page), you may be able to understand what the authors are attempting to communicate. There is some good information in the book, but some examples of code are written inefficiently and I would not recommend learning from them.

If you have even intermediate experience with ColdFusion and Flash 5, I don't think you're going to get anything out of this book. This book is for someone who has no prior or very little experience with ColdFusion.

I questioned, in particular, the authors' Actionscript code, as some procedures they outlined could have been written more intuitively. The chronology of their explanations are confusing at times.

I have a healthy library of internet-related development books, and they're all useful to me to this day. Foundation ColdFusion for Flash, though, was a disappointment. This is the first time I have ever felt more knowledgable on the subject material than the authors themselves.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful, November 16, 2001

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Brett Roberts (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foundation ColdFusion for Flash (Paperback)

Contrary to some of the other reviews, I found this to be a great guide in incorporating Flash and ColdFusion. This book is great for the beginner and intermediate level programmers and is very easy to follow and understand. Some of the other reviewers on this book stated they did not learn anything, but I sure did.(...)

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Beginner, October 17, 2001

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Charlie Pine - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foundation ColdFusion for Flash (Paperback)

Having a background in flash development i was looking for a book which would teach me the interaction between a web language and flash. The title of the book suggested a good place to start and i wasn't dissapointed. There are grammatical errors but this book isnt trying to teach you correct english but the interface of flash and coldfusion. having no background in web language development i found this book refreshingly aimed at people like myself who want answers to questions you would normally be to embarrased to ask...well done!!