Programming instructions

Working with ColdFusion pages 15

To create a ColdFusion page:

1 Open your editor and create a blank file.

2 Enter the following code on the page:

<html>

<head>

<title>A ColdFusion Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<strong>Hello world, this is a ColdFusion page.</strong>

<br>

<cfoutput> Today’s date is #DateFormat(Now())# </cfoutput>

</body>

</html>

Saving your ColdFusion page

In order for the ColdFusion server to process the page, you must save the ColdFusion

page on a computer where the ColdFusion server is installed. If you are creating your

pages on a local server (on which ColdFusion is running), then you can save the pages

locally; if you are using a remote server, then you must save your pages on that server.

To publish ColdFusion pages on the Internet, you must save the pages under the web-root

directory.

To save the code you just typed (to create a ColdFusion page):

1 Create a new directory called test under the web_root directory.

2 In the test directory, save the file as cfpage.cfm.

Browsing your code

To ensure that the code you wrote is working as expected, you must view the ColdFusion

page in a browser. The following procedure describes how to view the ColdFusion page

that you created earlier.

To view the ColdFusion page:

1 Open a web browser and go to the following URL:

http://127.0.0.1/test/cfpage.cfm

The address 127.0.0.1 refers to the localhost and is only valid when you view pages

locally. The URL for a remote site would include the IP address of the server where

ColdFusion is installed; for example: http://<serveripaddress>/test/cfpage.cfm.