ColdFusion Example Applications
You can learn a lot more about ColdFusion by taking a look at the example applications installed with ColdFusion Server. Four fully functional example applications are installed that you can raid for working code. The examples are as follows:
- A simple personnel management application. Allows you to search and view a list of employee names or sort by department. Use the ColdFusion pages in this application to learn basic techniques used for database transactions, as well as other ColdFusion fundamentals.
- A full-featured POP3 email client. Use this application to actually manage your email. Or, better yet, check out how simple it is using CFML to integrate POP and SMTP services in Web applications. Slightly more advanced, shows some basic error handling techniques.
- An all-but-live ecommerce application pitching windsurfing hardware. Includes a behind-the-scenes facility for viewing CFML code. An advanced ColdFusion application, shows,
- A sophisticated content management application modeled after the content management system that hosts the Allaire Web site.
To run any of the example applications, open the Example application home page in your cfdocs
directory. By default this is:
hostname/cfdocs/examplehome.htm
The following sections provide a detailed walk-through of the email client application so you can see exactly how ColdFusion application pages fit together and how discreet blocks of ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) code work.
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