Day 7. Changing the Contents of a Database with ColdFusion

In Day 6, "Creating Your First Web Application," you built your first ColdFusion templates to create a two-page drill-down application. Your templates used basic queries to draw information from a client's database and present the data to users as an HTML page. In today's lesson we'll look at the other side of ColdFusion—input. You'll learn how standard Web forms can be used to get information into a ColdFusion database. We'll also cover

  • The <CFINSERT> and <CFUPDATE> tags

  • An introduction to Web forms

  • Creating forms to insert or update data

  • Troubleshooting insert and update operations

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