
408 Chapter 10 • Securing ColdFusion
Ease of use, ease of understanding, and speed of programming have all
made ColdFusion a powerful force in the market, even against such giants
as Microsoft’s ASP (which was actually developed later) and Sun’s JSP.
Understanding ColdFusion
Markup Language
As stated earlier, the ColdFusion language is made up primarily of tags.
For example, setting a variable is done by using the code shown in
Figure 10.5.
Figure 10.5 Setting a Variable in ColdFusion
<CFSET variablename=value>
This sets a variable with the name variablename to a value.The
value can be text, numbers, and even complex data types such as arrays
and str