Web Application Developer Boot Camp: Server Side

5 day course

This course will provide you with a thorough introduction to server-side web development through the use of two different web application server technologies: ColdFusion and PHP. In each of these technologies, we will develop forms-based, database driven web applications. In this course, we will build web forms and programs that respond to form submissions, maintain state with cookies and sessions, automatically generate emails, read and write files on the server, connect to databases, search for and display records, insert/modify/delete records, validate user input and create modular reusable code by writing user-defined functions in both ColdFusion and PHP.

Overview of Course Topics:
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• Introduction to ColdFusion
• Web-to-Database Integration
• Writing ColdFusion Code
• Date and Time Functions and Formats
• Working with Variables
• Passing Variables Between Pages
• Building Forms with Homesite+
• Conditionals in ColdFusion
• An Introduction to SQL
• Querying a Database
• Displaying Query Records in Table Format
• Dynamically Populating Select Lists
• Creating a Search Interface
• Implementing Basic Data Drill Downs
• The <cfqueryparam> Tag
• Inserting Records into the Database
• The <cflocation> Tag
• The <cfinclude> Tag
• Client-Side and Server-Side Form Validation
• Editing Records in the Database
• Generating Email Messages with <cfmail>
• Output Shortcuts
• Encapsulating Data Using Sessions
• ColdFusion Administrator Configuration
• ColdFusion Variable Types
• Working with Cookies
• Working with Sessions
• Debugging Advice
• Web Application Technologies and PHP
• Writing PHP Pages
• Processing Data from Online Forms
• Working with Cookies in PHP
• Maintaining State with Sessions
• Generating Email with PHP
• Interfacing with the Server File System
• Iteration Structures in PHP
• Database Integration with PHP
• Functions and Regular Expressions
• Creating a Drill Down Query
• Installing PHP and MySQL