I recently inherited a Coldfusion application and while I have experience in other languages, I have some very basic questions on CF.
1) Recommendations on any third party books to help me come up to speed on this environment.
2) The application I inherited uses MS SQL 7 on the backend and most of the pages are very simplistic doing nothing more than data display and simple data entry. I suppose I am spoiled of the current IDE's available in Visual Studio, but to date, I have found it a bit difficult to follow the logic (or lack thereof) in some of the pages.
For example:
One page executes a simple Select query and then populates two drop-down list controls with data from two different fields from the same recordset. (ie Stock Ticker Symbols in one list and Company names in another). I would like to tie these two objects together, such that when you select an item in one list the corresponding field is displayed in the other. Any hints on how to approach this?
3) The server is currently running version 4, but Macromedia is now selling version 5 of the development environment (and 4.5 of server) and version 5 is the only one they sell. If I am using version 5 to fix / modify this existing application is it likely to cause me problems running it on version 4 of the server? Assuming I stay away from tags not supported in version 4, I was mostly concerned that parameters / other functionality may be effected and the resulting pages would fail to work?
Thanks in advance.
1) Recommendations on any third party books to help me come up to speed on this environment.
2) The application I inherited uses MS SQL 7 on the backend and most of the pages are very simplistic doing nothing more than data display and simple data entry. I suppose I am spoiled of the current IDE's available in Visual Studio, but to date, I have found it a bit difficult to follow the logic (or lack thereof) in some of the pages.
For example:
One page executes a simple Select query and then populates two drop-down list controls with data from two different fields from the same recordset. (ie Stock Ticker Symbols in one list and Company names in another). I would like to tie these two objects together, such that when you select an item in one list the corresponding field is displayed in the other. Any hints on how to approach this?
3) The server is currently running version 4, but Macromedia is now selling version 5 of the development environment (and 4.5 of server) and version 5 is the only one they sell. If I am using version 5 to fix / modify this existing application is it likely to cause me problems running it on version 4 of the server? Assuming I stay away from tags not supported in version 4, I was mostly concerned that parameters / other functionality may be effected and the resulting pages would fail to work?
Thanks in advance.