Mastering ColdFusion MX
Chapter One
Creating Your First ColdFusion
Template
Beginning with this chapter and continuing throughout this book, you will create Cold-
Fusion templates. A ColdFusion template is nothing more than a markup file (typically HTML)
that also contains ColdFusion statements and has a .cfm file extension.
One of the best learning devices is by doing, so in this chapter you are actually going to write
a ColdFusion template. Don't worry, though, you won't be diving off the high board right away;
you'll get to wade in a bit at a time. You will be shown how to write a simple template, and then
its important points will be deconstructed and explained.
Featured in this chapter:
* Setting up the software
* Understanding ColdFusion templates
* Creating your first template
Setting Up ColdFusion
Before you can begin working with the projects in this book, you will need to install some software
first:
* A web server-for example, Apache, Microsoft's Internet Info ... read full excerpt from Mastering ColdFusion MX ebook
