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Fusebox 4.1 Techniques with ColdFusion MX

Fusebox is a methodology that encourages reuse of code everywhere possible. A small set of core files sets the stage for creation of a completely modular website - all controlled by one page! All requests go through the single index.cfm page, however, a series of variables passed through will decide which "page" is displayed. Adopting this methodology ensures that all Fusebox developers will instantly understand the structure of your site.

Course Outline

• Introduction
• Fusebox: Framework or methodology?
• Goals of Fusebox
• Who benefits from Fusebox?
• Common objections to Fusebox
• What you'll really need
• Fusebox primer
• Circuits, fuseactions, and fuses
• Circuits
• Fuseactions
• Fuses
• Fusedocs
• Overview of the key fbx_ files
• Setting up a Fusebox 4 application
• Downloading the files
• Setting up a "Home" directory
• Plugins directory
• Parsed directory
• Adding circuits
• Adding fuses
• MVC
• Introduction to XML files
• Why XML?
• Writing well-formed XML
• Introducing the Fusebox 4 XML files
• Circuits
• Overview of circuits
• Determining circuits
• Defining circuits
• Using circuits
• Exit fuseactions (XFAs)
• Writing your first Fusebox 4 application
• Globals plugin
• Circuit.xml
• Stepping through the fuseactions
• Creating the fuses
• Testing the application
• Understanding Fusebox 4 XML files
• fusebox.xml
• circuit.xml
• XML grammar
• Overview
• <include>
• <set>
• <xfa>
• <do>
• <relocate>
• <if></if>
• <loop></loop>
• MVC design pattern
• What Model-View-Controller architecture?
• Understanding the model
• Understanding the view
• Understanding the controller
• Is MVC right for my application?
• The relationship between MVC and Fusebox 4
• Fusedocs
• Introducing XML Fusedocs
• Detailed examination of each Fusedoc element
• Layouts
• Simple headers and footers
• Adding in smart sub-navigation
• Nested layouts
• Accessibility concerns
• Content variables
• The role and use of content variables
• Content variable modifiers
• Content variables and segment layouts
• Accessibility with content variables
• Memory structures
• Overview of memory structures
• The fb_ structure
• The myFusebox structure
• The application.fusebox structure
• Circuits in applications.fusebox
• Fuseactions in application.fusebox
• Fusebox 4 lifecycle
• The core files
• The request
• Runtime
• FormURL2attributes
• Initializing the Fusebox working structure and API
• Including the loader
• Setting up the myFusebox.plugins structure
• Default fuseaction
• Updating the API
• Fuseaction access
• Parsing files
• Executing the fuseaction
• Loader
• Initializing the application.fusebox structure
• Reading Fusebox.xml
• <parameters>
• <globalfuseactions>
• <circuits>
• circuits.xml
• Fuseactions
• Plugins
• Transformer
• preProcess
• preFuseaction
• Requested fuseactions
• postFuseaction
• processError
• Looping through the FuseQ
• Parser
• Executing the request
• Plugins
• What is a plugin?
• Plugin points
• Using plugins
• Sharing plugins
• Advanced plugin techniques
• How plugins are handled by the core files
• Setting up your plugin
• Cross-phase plugin
• Using plugin parameters
• How to reference files used by a plugin
• Exception handling
• Exception handling using plugins
• Distinguishing exceptions from errors
• Exception handling caveats
• Security
• Security architectures overview
• The permissions attribute
• A simple security example
• Using security in a fuse
• Fusebox 4 shopping cart: an example
• Logical structure
• Physical layout
• The model circuits
• The view circuits
• The controller circuit
• Fusebox 4 and ColdFusion components
• Syntax and purpose
• Converting to a CFC model
• Enhancing performance
• The anatomy of a Web service
• Exposing an application as a Web service
• Invoking Web services
• Additional considerations
• Conclusion

Students receive a copy of Techpedition's Discovering Fusebox 4.1 and a customized workbook with additional exercises.

• Table of Contents ii
• Introduction to Fusebox
• Set-up Instructions
• Exercise 1: Magic Eight Ball - Examine a Completed Application
• Exercise 2: Magic Eight Ball - Building your first Fusebox Application
• Exercise 3: Movies Site – Creating the Site Structure and Default fuseaction
• Exercise 4: Movies Site – Creating the Home Circuit
• Exercise 5: Movies Site – Creating the Admin Circuit
• Exercise 6: Movies Site – Writing Fusedocs
• Exercise 7: Movies Site – Adding Standard Layout (Header and Footer)

See also:

Adobe ColdFusion 8 Training Courses

• Core ColdFusion 8 (3 days) - UPDATED!
• Advanced ColdFusion 8: Components, Error Handling and Complex Objects (2 days) - UPDATED!
• Advanced ColdFusion 8: XML, External Data and File System (2 days) - UPDATED!
• ColdFusion 8 and Reporting (2 days) - NEW!
• ColdFusion 8 and Ajax (2 days) - NEW!
• What's New in ColdFusion 8 (2 days) - NEW!

• Introduction to ColdFusion MX 7 (3 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 (4 days)

• Introduction to ColdFusion MX (2 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion MX (3 days)
• ColdFusion MX, Web Services and XML (2 days)
• FuseBox 4.1 Training (2 day)
• Building Data-driven Websites with Dreamweaver 8(using ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET or ASP) (2 days)
• Flash Remoting MX: Integrating Flash and ColdFusion (2 days)