Data Collection
It's not just about business, either. ColdFusion is also used by government bureaucrats to get their reams of data on the Web. It is used by community organizations that maintain lists of other community organizations, and by common folk like you and me who just want to share our database of Boxcar Willie's bootleg recordings with the world at large.
Neither is ColdFusion just about outputting documents to the Web. It features a handy tool called CFINSERT, which I'll cover in Day 7. This feature alone opens up whole new worlds of uses because it allows you to collect user input from the Web, via a standard HTML form or other methods, and automatically input it into a database on your server.
A form is a Web page designed to take ...
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