Includes index.

Contents: Coldfusion MX 6.1: Client/server technologies -- Architecture and dynamics of a web application -- History of coldfusion -- Coldfusion MX 6.1 developer edition -- Writing a ''hello world'' program in coldfusion -- Coldfusion administrator -- Organization of the book -- Coldfusion: basics: Dynamic versus static web pages -- Variables, expressions, and operators -- Web application framework -- Coldfusion control structures(CFML flow): Control structures -- Loop structures -- Forms: Creating coldfusion forms -- Form processing in coldfusion -- Processing input from radio buttons -- Processing input from checkboxes -- Processing input from list boxes -- Processing input from a textarea -- Validation of form fields -- Enhancing functionality -- Coldfusion forms and databases -- Database basics: connectivity, simple queries, and security issues -- Cold fusion and database interaction -- Accessing the data source via SQL to retrieve and display data -- Managing data: insert, update, and delete records -- Security issues of databases on the coldfusion server -- Advanced database features: SQL aggregate functions -- Transaction processing and security of the database -- Stored procedures -- Dynamic SQL -- Working with dates -- Built-in functions: String manipulation -- Decision or boolean functions -- Mathematical functions -- Date and time functions -- Evaluation of expressions -- System functions -- Complex data types: Introduction to complex data types -- Lists -- Arrays -- Structures -- Building a multi-term shopping cart -- Server-side scripting -- Molecular code: Molecular coding -- Using include files -- User-defined functions -- Reusing code with custom tags -- Coldfusion MX components -- Cool features: Suppressing output -- Debugging -- Exception handling -- Sitewise error handling -- Logging messages -- Abort processing -- Template redirection -- File handling -- Sending email -- Graphs and charts -- Generating XML -- E-Commerce shopping cart application: E-Commerce and the shopping cart -- High-level flow diagram -- Data structures -- Session variables -- The Application.cfm file -- Include files -- Sitewise error handling -- Product catalog -- Shopping cart -- Customer information page -- Order review page -- Order confirmation page -- Shopping cart enhancements -- Other suggested projects -- Appendix A: SQL commands -- Appendix B: XHTML versus HTML tags ordered by function.