Novice must build site login

[Pandion Knight]

:frown; I'm an experienced DW4 user new to Studio and ColdFusion. I need to build a login page for our company site. And retain a db of the registered visitors. Where do I start?

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

Pandion Knight wrote:

> :frown; I'm an experienced DW4 user new to Studio and ColdFusion. I need to build a login page for our company site. And retain a db of the registered visitors. Where do I start?

Probably the best way to get started is to get a copy of Ben Forta's
ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit--if you're going to be
doing much CF programming at all you'll want to have this around.

There are also a couple of good tutorials on easycfm.com:
[url]http://tutorial8.easycfm.com/[/url]
[url]http://tutorial355.easycfm.com/[/url]

Matt

--
Matt Woodward
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[kyle969]

That is very good advice for a beginner. Also add this link to your bookmarks, it is an invaluable reference:

[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/[/url]

[Pandion Knight]

Thanks guys.
I have printed off the 'Configuring & Administering' and 'Getting Started
Building' and 'CFML Quick Reference' PDFs. I have the 'Developers Guide' too.
So I suppose I should start with the tutorials in the Getting Started pdf? I'll
look up that book as well.

[Pandion Knight]

WOW! Easycfm.com what a great site. I'm trying the tutorial8 now. Thanks again for looking up such specific links.:cool;

[Pandion Knight]

:confused; Can someone please tell ideally where I should keep the database tables used by coldfusion? In local or remote site files?

[Brendon]

Pandion Knight wrote:

> :confused; Can someone please tell ideally where I should keep the database tables used by coldfusion? In local or remote site files?

Unless you are viewing your site you are building on another machine,
you would normally have them stored locally. This way, you test all your
design of your site locally, then go through the process of uploading to
a remote server when you are finished. Some people test remotely as they
are developing, but it is probably not as common by default.

For storage of your database, the tutorial documents you downloaded
'should' detail this, but if not - the default (typically) would be
something like:
c:\Coldfusion\db\my_database.mdb for access files
or
c:\mysql\bin\data\my_database\ for mysql files etc.

cheers
Brendon

[Pandion Knight]

:confused; Regarding the tutorial8.easycfm link "Creating a user
authentication (Login) area). This is just what I have to do, but must admit
to being a complete novice where ColdFusion is concerned.
Following the tutorial, I built the the four .cfm pages (the tutorial does not
say where I should locate these pages), and placed them within a folder called
coldfusion in my local site files.
When I go to preview the Application.cfm in the browser, it generates an error
saying "The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost".
Suggestions please?