Sams Teach Yourself Coldfusion Express in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Series

by Ben Forta

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.

400 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2000

About the author

Ben Forta is an author and Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and the owner of EmTek Systems. He previously worked in a similar capacity for Macromedia and Allaire Corporation, the two previous owners of ColdFusion.

In addition to writing numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta co-authored Adobe's official ColdFusion training materials and certification tests and lectures on application development around the world. Many of his books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

Before working for Allaire, he founded the website Car.com, which was later purchased by Auto-By-Tel. Born in London, England, Forta lives in Oak Park, Michigan with his wife and their children.

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Reviews

[Kieran Telo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very impressed by this. Early chapters are either flag-waving for CFML, too basic, or both. Later chapters suddenly lurch from patronising to mystifying. Quite a few errors and missing bits of code e.g. one complex section continually refers to the sample code at end of chapter and no such source is given. The stuff on CD is very dated. And anyway CFML is a pretty crappy language on the whole.