Setting up a Datasource - Coldfusion tutorial

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ColdFusion makes it easy to select data out of a database and display it on a page. As soon as you feel good about your success in crossing the divide from static to dynamic, someone will say "That's nice, can you group the list by author?". Whether you are asked to group things by author, make, brand, year or whatever, ColdFusion has you covered with its grouping capabilities.

This tutorial teaches you how to create a simple guest book application using a MS Access database.

Structures are everywhere in the ColdFusion world. As of ColdFusion 4.5, form, application, session, server, request, and URL variables are stored in structures. Allaire Spectra makes extensive use of structures and associative arrays.

This article will examine coding best practices for writing maintainable code, including consistent variable naming conventions, code structure, and comments.

If you'd like to be able to offer your website visitors more than one site design to choose from, this tutorial might get you started. The techniques used in this tutorial involve some simple ColdFusion, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and cookies.