Chapter 24. Working Smart with ColdFusion

Dreamweaver MX 2004 is designed to be a complete solution for developing coldfusion applications. Unlike other server models supported in Dreamweaver, ColdFusion is a “tag-based” language for developing dynamic applications. Rather than using a scripting language, like PHP, ColdFusion reads embedded custom tags in the page’s regular HTML for the server to execute commands and return data to the browser. From within Dreamweaver, developers can access all the tags available in ColdFusion from the insertion bar.

Dreamweaver has several ways to access ColdFusion tags. The most basic way to work with ColdFusion is to use the ...

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