Chapter 4: Retrieving And Formatting The Data You Want - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-DEVELOPING WEB Develop Manual

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Retrieving and Formatting the
Chapter 4
This chapter explains how to select the data to display in a dynamic Web page. It also
describes how to populate an HTML table with query results and how to use
ColdFusion functions to format and manipulate data.
Contents
Data You Want
Using Forms to Specify the Data to Retrieve.................................................. 30
Processing Form Variables on Action Pages................................................... 34
Dynamically Generating SQL Statements...................................................... 34
Creating Action Pages ...................................................................................... 35
Using HTML Tables to Layout Query Results ................................................ 37
Formatting Individual Data Items .................................................................. 38
Performing Pattern Matching ......................................................................... 39
Filtering Data Based on Multiple Conditions ................................................ 39
Creating Table Joins ......................................................................................... 40
Building Flexible Search Interfaces ................................................................ 40
Returning Query Results to the User .............................................................. 42