Introduction

Getting Started Building ColdFusion MX Applications is intended for anyone who needs to begin programming in the Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 development environment. This manual includes a tutorial, which uses supporting files that are installed if you chose to install sample applications. If you did not install the ColdFusion MX sample applications, you can download the tutorial files from the ColdFusion Support center on the Macromedia website.

About Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 documentation

The ColdFusion MX 7 documentation is designed to provide support for the complete spectrum of participants.

Documentation set

The ColdFusion MX 7 documentation set includes the following titles:

Book

Description

Installing and Using ColdFusion MX

Describes system installation and basic configuration for Microsoft Windows, Solaris, and Linux. To see this manual, go to http://www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx7docs_installing.

Configuring and Administering ColdFusion MX

Part I describes how to manage the ColdFusion environment, including connecting to your data sources and configuring security for your applications. Part II describes Verity search tools and utilities that you can use for configuring the Verity K2 Server search engine, as well as creating, managing, and troubleshooting Verity collections. To see this manual, go to www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx7docs_configadmin.

ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide

Describes how to develop your dynamic web applications, including retrieving and updating your data, and using structures and forms. This manual includes two volumes. To see this manual, go to www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx7docs_dev.

Getting Started Building ColdFusion MX Applications

Contains an overview of ColdFusion features and application development procedures. This manual includes a tutorial that guides you through the process of developing a sample ColdFusion application. To see this manual online, go to www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx7docs_gs.

CFML Reference

Provides descriptions, syntax, usage, and code examples for all ColdFusion tags, functions, and variables. This manual includes two volumes. To see this manual, go to www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx7docs__cfml_reference.

CFML Quick Reference

Shows the syntax of ColdFusion tags, functions, and variables in a brief guide.

Viewing online documentation

All ColdFusion MX documentation is available online in HTML and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Go to the documentation home page for ColdFusion MX on the Macromedia website: www.macromedia.com. In addition, you can view the documentation in LiveDocs, which lets you add comments to pages and view the latest comments added by Macromedia, by going to www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx7docs.