The ColdFusion Markup Language

Now that you are familiar with the basics of ColdFusion administration, you can begin to learn the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)—the language used to develop ColdFusion applications. Two important things to remember about CFML are

  • CFML code is located in the same file as XHTML code.

  • CFML is a tag-based language, so if you're comfortable with XHTML, it will be easier to pick up CFML.

As you read earlier, CFML also comes with more than 200 functions for processing specific data structures. These functions are used within tags and make ColdFusion application development that much easier.

The next two major sections look at the most useful CFML tags and functions in the context of common tasks you would need to code ...

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