ColdFusion

ColdFusion is a programming language created in 1995 by Joseph J. Allaire.

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ColdFusion website
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There are at least 20,756 ColdFusion repos on GitHub
ColdFusion first developed in Adobe
file extensions for ColdFusion include cfm and cfml
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The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 1k users using ColdFusion in 2k repos on GitHub
Check out the 22 ColdFusion meetup groups on Meetup.com.
There are 10 Project Euler users using ColdFusion
Explore ColdFusion snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for ColdFusion
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for ColdFusion
There is a central package repository for ColdFusion
See also: (24 related languages)Java, HTML, CFML, ASP, JSP, PHP, JavaScript, CFScript, SOAP, PDF, SMTP, FTP, XML, XPath, Solaris, Microsoft Excel, Linux, ECMAScript, Eclipse, WSDL, JSON, Jython, Groovy, JRuby
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Example from hello-world:

<cfset message = "Hello World">
<cfoutput> #message#</cfoutput>

Example from the Hello World Collection:

<!---Hello world in ColdFusion--->

<cfset message = "Hello World">
<cfoutput> #message#</cfoutput>

Example from Linguist:

<!--- cfcomment --->
<!--- nested <!--- cfcomment ---> --->
<!--- multi-line
nested
<!---
cfcomment
--->
--->
<!-- html comment -->
<html>
<head>
<title>Date Functions</title>
</head>
<body>
<cfset RightNow = Now()>
<cfoutput>
 #RightNow#<br />
 #DateFormat(RightNow)#<br />
 #DateFormat(RightNow,"mm/dd/yy")#<br />
 #TimeFormat(RightNow)#<br />
 #TimeFormat(RightNow,"hh:mm tt")#<br />
 #IsDate(RightNow)#<br />
 #IsDate("January 31, 2007")#<br />
 #IsDate("foo")#<br />
 #DaysInMonth(RightNow)#
</cfoutput>
<cfset x="x">
<cfset y="y">
<cfset z="z">
<cfoutput group="x">
    #x#
    <cfoutput>#y#</cfoutput>
    #z#
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>

<cfset person = "Paul">
<cfset greeting = "Hello #person#">

<cfset greeting = "Hello" & " world!">
<cfset a = 5>
<cfset b = 10>
<cfset c = a^b>
<cfset c = a MOD b>
<cfset c = a / b>
<cfset c = a * b>
<cfset c = a + b>
<cfset c = a - b>
<!--- <!-- another <!--- nested --> ---> comment --->

Example from Wikipedia:

http://path/to/components/Component.cfc?method=search&query=your+query&mode=strict

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	cfoutput
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X

Books about ColdFusion on goodreads

title	author	year	reviews	ratings	rating
Programming ColdFusion	Rob Brooks-Bilson	2001	0	7	3.86
Programming Coldfusion MX	Rob Brooks-Bilson	2003	0	18	3.78
Object-Oriented Programming in Coldfusion	Matt Gifford	2010	4	12	3.92
Coldfusion 8 Developer Tutorial	John Farrar	2008	0	5	4.00
Macromedia Coldfusion Mx7 Certified Developer Study Guide	Ben Forta	2001	2	27	3.56
Java for Coldfusion Developers	Eben Hewitt	2003	0	3	3.00
ColdFusion MX for Dummies	John Paul Ashenfelter	2002	0	4	4.25
Coldfusion 4.5 for Dummies [With CDROM]	Alexis D. Gutzman	2000	0	1	3.00
Coldfusion 9 Developer Tutorial	John Farrar	2010	0	0	0.0

Books about ColdFusion from ISBNdb

title	authors	year	publisher
Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit: v. 1: Getting Started	Forta, Ben Forta	2010	Adobe Press
Programming ColdFusion	Brooks-Bilson, Rob	2001	O'Reilly Media
Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development	Forta, Ben	2010	Adobe Press
ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit (5th Edition)	Forta, Ben and Weiss, Nate and Chalnick, Leon and Buraglia, Angela C.	2002	Macromedia Press
Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion	Gifford, Matt	2010	Packt Publishing
Programming The Web With Coldfusion Mx 6.1 Using Xhtml (web Developer Series)	Lakshmi Prayaga and Hamsa Suri	2004	Career Education
ColdFusion 5 Language Reference	Ben Forta	2001	Pearson Education
ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial	Farrar, John	2010	Packt Publishing
Adobe ColdFusion 10 Web Application Construction Kit: ColdFusion 10 Enhancements and Improvements	Ben Forta and Charlie Arehart and Raymond Camden and Ken Fricklas and Hemanth Khandelwal and Chandan Kumar and Rob Brooks-Bilson	2013	Adobe Press
ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial	Farrar, John	2010	Packt Publishing
Adobe ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit: ColdFusion 10 Enhancements and Improvements	Forta, Ben and Charlie Arehart and Raymond Camden and Ken Fricklas and Hemanth Khandelwal and Chandan Kumar and Rob Brooks-Bilson	2013	Adobe Press
Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition	Rob Brooks-Bilson	2003	O'Reilly Media
Java for ColdFusion Developers	Hewitt, Eben	2002	Prentice Hall Ptr
The Coldfusion 4.0 Web Application Construction Kit	Forta, Ben and Weiss, Nate	1998	Que Pub
Hack Proofing ColdFusion	Steve Casco and Rob Rusher and Greg Meyer and Sarge and David Vaccaro and David An	2002	Syngress
ColdFusion 5: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides (Osborne))		2002	McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia
Essential ColdFusion fast	Matthew Norman	20121206	Springer Nature
Programming ColdFusion MX	Rob Brooks-Bilson	20030813	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Adobe Coldfusion Anthology	Michael Dinowitz and Judith Dinowitz	2011	Apress
Macromedia ColdFusion 5: training from the source	Schmidt, Kevin J. (kevin James)	2002	Macromedia Press
Programming ColdFusion MX	Rob Brooks-Bilson	20030813	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Optimizing Coldfusion 5	Chris Cortes	2001	Osborne/mcgraw-hill
Adobe ColdFusion Anthology	Michael Dinowitz; Judith Dinowitz	20101228	Springer Nature
Dynamic Publishing with ColdFusion MX	Benjamin Elmore	2002	New Riders
Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion	Matt Gifford	20101013	Packt Publishing
Macromedia Coldfusion MX 7 Interview Que	Terry Sanchez-Clark and Itcookbook	2006	Equity Press
Programming The Web With Coldfusion Mx Using Xhtml	Hamsa Suri Lakshmi Prayaga	2003	Mcgraw-hill Custom Publishing

ColdFusion - Programming language

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Books about ColdFusion on goodreads

Books about ColdFusion from ISBNdb