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How does CFML (Cold Fusion Markup Language) Work?

The Cold Fusion Markup Language is a flexible server-side markup language. It has three parts:
  1. Tags
  2. Expressions
  3. Functions

Tags

CFML provides a number of tags that can be used to interact with databases, send email, build HTML output, manage files, and perform other Web application tasks. CFML tags look like HTML, but they are pre-processed on the server, not in the browser.

Expressions

Expressions combine data, variables, operators, functions, and other expressions to manipulate data and return a result. Expressions are used for mathematical calculations, string manipulation, date-time operations, formatting results, and a host of other tasks.

Functions

Cold Fusion functions are predefined operations that can be used to manipulate data. Functions can be used in expressions in a variety of places in templates. CFML supports over 130 functions in the following categories:
  1. Mathematical and trigonometric functions
  2. Bit manipulation functions
  3. Decision functions
  4. String functions
  5. Date and Time functions
  6. Administrative functions
  7. System-level functions
  8. Functions date, time, and number formatting
  9. List functions
 		 

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