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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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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Script basics


There are a number of script basics. These will help you get the basics fast. Most of the other web platforms are primarily script, so anyone coming from another platform will find this very familiar ground. In fact, most of the script style in ColdFusion follows very similar standards to JavaScript. The first thing we will learn about script in ColdFusion is that it is typically wrapped with a pair of tags. (Yes, this is irony for sure.)

<cfscript>
</cfscript>

The next thing we will look at is the comments. There are two ways to leave comments in script. There are single-line comments and multiple-line comments.

<cfscript>
// single line comments like this
a = 5; // these can come at the end of lines also
/* This is the start of comments.
These comments can but do not have to span multiple lines.
This is the end of the comment segment. */
</cfscript>

Operators are not as strict in script as they are in tags. In tags, we cannot use the < or the &gt...

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