Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion Express in 24 Hours [Paperback]

Ben Forta (Author), Sue Hove (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672316625 | ISBN-13: 978-0672316623 | Publication Date: December 28, 2000 | Edition: Edition Unstated

Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion Express is a step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to turn basic Web sites into Web applications. From installation to database connection configuration, from tag and function usage to code reuse, this book helps you take advantage of Web application technology so you can take your Web sites to the next level. Learn how to interact with databases to create dynamic data driven web sites, how to perform intelligent server side condition and logical processing, how to create guest books, counters, and other server side applications, as well as how to create personalized and interactive Web sites.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is for anyone who wants to learn ColdFusion Express (or the full blown ColdFusion, as everything taught in this book applies to ColdFusion as well). Whether you are building an online business, or enhancing your personal Web site, this book teach you all you need to know to be productive quickly and efficiently.

From the Author

ColdFusion Express is a scaled down version of Allaire Corporation's award winning ColdFusion Application Server. Since it's release in 1995, ColdFusion has proven itself to be a fast, efficient, secure, and highly scalable platform on which to build Web applications. And indeed, tens of thousands of organizations and hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide use ColdFusion every say to help shape the future of the Web. ColdFusion is a commercial product, and comes in two flavors: ColdFusion Professional and ColdFusion Enterprise. These products support all the features and technologies needed by application developers.

And despite all that power, ColdFusion's claim to fame has always been ease of use. ColdFusion is so easy to learn that most users are up and running writing code in hours, not in days, weeks or months. And with each successive version, ColdFusion becomes even more powerful, and even easier to use.

ColdFusion Express is ColdFusion's little brother, a simplified version of the ColdFusion server that is made available to developers at no cost whatsoever. While not as powerful or flexible as ColdFusion, ColdFusion Express does feature the basic technologies that you need to start building Web applications, and it runs on computers running Windows or Linux. And all at a price that can't be beat – it's yours for the download.

Regardless of background and prior experience, this book will get you and up running creating guest-books, personalized sites, secure login pages, and much more. Starting from the absolute basics, and covering everything from database integration to session-state management, this book was written by highly acclaimed ColdFusion instructors so that anyone who so desires can leverage the power of ColdFusion.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Sams; Edition Unstated edition (December 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672316625
• ISBN-13: 978-0672316623
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in a dozen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Ben Forta Cold Fusion book, January 25, 2001

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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion Express in 24 Hours (Paperback)

Ben Forta is a rare combination of a technology educator who combines a writing style that is easy for web beginners to understand with cutting edge content that will challenge technology experts. An important reason for the popularity of Cold Fusion as an easy to use web application development tool among web heads is the excellent book by Ben Forta 'Allaire Cold Fusion 4.0'. Ben Forta's latest work 'Sams Teach Yourself Cold Fusion Express' continues that excellent tradition and is highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great place to start with ColdFusion Express, March 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion Express in 24 Hours (Paperback)

This is a fantastic book! The first chapters' review of the client-server web dynamic is worth the price of admission alone. Excellently written!

This book takes you from the beginning step-by-step to explain some advanced application development. A perfect choice to jump into working with ColdFusion!!

An added benefit is having ColdFusion express on the CD-ROM, with helpful installation tips that will help you get ColdFusion up and running quickly!!!

Great work!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Beginners Book, May 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion Express in 24 Hours (Paperback)

I'm new to Cold Fusion and I spent a couple of hours at B&N yesturday evaluating all the books they had (the Dummies and Quick and Easy books specifically). Forta's book is hand's down the best of the bunch. I agree with the previous reviewer that there are some typos, but when you consider how easy he is to understand - especially compared to what else is out there - this is the book I bought.