New in coldfusion

[vikk11]

hello All

I am very new in coldfusion and I want to create my own application so I am trying it and almost I got some success but there is a lot of tags because coldfusion only depend on the tags. So please help me to give the important link to learnt more in coldfusion. Its realy very interesting so please help me more on it.

Thanking you

vikas

[existdissolve]

Hi Vikas--

Welcome to ColdFusion!  I'm sure you'll find that as you get into it more, ColdFusion is not only easy to learn but also extremely powerful.

It's difficult to answer your question directly, simply because there is a lot to know.  If you have specific questions about what some of the tags do, or just need guidance with particular aspects of coding your application, feel free to ask.

If you're just looking for a good introduction, there are plenty available online.  I'd recommend starting off with the docs:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/index.html (these are for ColdFusion 8...but there are links for other versions)

Beyond that, googling specific ColdFusion tags and functions generally provides pretty robust solutions to a lot of possible issues you might encounter.

And of course, if you come across specific problems or questions, feel free to ask here on these boards.

Good luck!

[vikk11]

hai existdissolve

I am realy beginner in coldfusion but i am aslo be the good programmer in php even experienced but recently i study of coldfusion. So please tell me how to start it and which is the most importent tag in coldfusion. And I am very thankful to you that u give me the reply of it. Could u add my email id in your gmail account chipheardwear1@gmail.com. So if I have facing more problem in coldfusion then I will ask u directly.Even I am satisfied the site which u had given me but I dont have a lot of time for study, So a little bit of time I need to be learnt more.

Thanking you

vikas

[existdissolve · Accepted solution]

Not sure that it's possible to nail down the "most important" tag in ColdFusion.  In the course of developing an application, no doubt you'll use <cfoutput> quite a bit (to output CF variables and function results), <cfquery> to connect to your database, <cfset> to set variables, <cfif> for conditional processing....the list goes on.  As in PHP, the most important tag in CF is the one that solves the particular problem that you have at hand.

Here's a decent introduction to what ColdFusion brings to application development:

http://www.tomkitta.com/guides/cf_101.cfm

[Adam Cameron.]

Do some reading:

Read this lot to get minimum familiarity:

Elements of CFML
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-8000.html

All subsections

Using ColdFusion Variables
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7ff2.html

All subsections

Using Expressions and Number Signs
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7ff1.html

All subsections

Accessing and Retrieving Data
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7bda.html

All subsections

Updating Your Database
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec0e02b-7ff3.html

All subsections, ignoring references to <cfinsert> and <cfupdate>

Tag Summary
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec17576-7ffd.html

Review all pages, but don't both trying to remember everything, just try to get a feel for what functionality is available

Functions by category
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec1a60c-7ffc.html

Again, review all pages, but don't both trying to remember everything, just try to get a feel for what functionality is available

Critical Tags

<cfset>
<cfoutput>
<cfif> / <cfelseif> / <cfelse>
<cfloop>
<cfquery> / <cfqueryparam>
<cfinclude>

Read this lot to augment what you already know

Application.cfc Reference
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-74fa.html

Handling Errors
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7fc4.html

Using Arrays and Structures
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7fcd.html

Writing and Calling User-Defined Functions
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7ff3.html

Building and Using ColdFusion Components
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7fec.html

Creating and Using Custom CFML Tags
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7ffb.html

Critical Tags

<cfcomponent>
<cffunction> / <cfargument> / <cfreturn>
<cftry> / <cfcatch> / <cffinally> / <cfthrow> / <cfrethrow>

Critical Functions

Array Functions
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-6a66.html

Structure Functions
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-69b8.html

Then fill in the gaps as needs must.

Consider buying the CFWACK series of books: http://forta.com/books/coldfusion/

--

Adam

[Dan_Bracuk]

Are you new to Coldfusion specifically, or new to programming in general?  If you are new to progamming in general, you'll also need to know about html, and maybe javascript, css, sql, and data modelling.