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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

You're reading from   ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial Create robust professional web applications with ColdFusion

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690249
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Farrar John Farrar
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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Web Pages—Static to Dynamic 2. Basic CFCs and Database Interaction FREE CHAPTER 3. Power CFCs and Web Forms 4. ORM Database Interaction 5. Application, Session, and Request Scope 6. Authentication and Permissions 7. CFScript 8. CF AJAX User Interface 9. CF AJAX Forms 10. CF AJAX Programming 11. Introduction to Custom Tags 12. ColdFusion Powered Views 13. Control Logic Processing 14. Guide to Unit Testing Beyond this Book Tools and Resources Index

CFAJAXProxy


This is another very popular AJAX programming feature. This tag allows us to bind AJAX component changes to CFCs, JavaScript, and URLs without the requirement of an AJAX component to pass through it. It also allows us to interact with CFCs directly from JavaScript without binding to any other AJAX component. The JavaScript interface is created for us, and we can reuse the CFC as if it was present locally inside the browser's JavaScript. It's very simple and acts as a good solution. Let's take a look at how it works.

CFAJAX proxy binding

We are going to build two textboxes that do arithmetic. The application only adds or subtracts. The first line of our code binds to the radio button set with the name calcType. We will bind to the click event. When either of the buttons is clicked, the call is made to the JavaScript function doCalc() passing the value of the radio button selected. Then the JavaScript function extracts the values of the two boxes and makes sure that they are floating...

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