Tutorial Toolbar Explained (TH.Toolbar)
The tutorials and articles posted on this web site use a unique Flash toolbar for navigation purposes. This tutorial will explain how the toolbar functions and how you can use it to navigate any tutorial.


ColdFusion MX 7 Login Security
Covering all of the same topics in the below CFMX 6 Login Security tutorial, this one covers new topics and features included in ColdFusion MX 7. It focuses on Application.cfc instead of Application.cfm and builds a similiar session-based login mechanism tied to a relational database. It ensures that users must log in to a Web site before they are allowed to view or access any ColdFusion templates. Additionally, if a users session times out, and they attempt to refresh the page they left in their browser - or any other page within the application - they will be redirected to the login template. The tutorial also outlines ColdFusion's built-in Hash() function (for securing passwords in the database), how to track the number of active sessions (application-wide), how to update the "last login date" each time a user logs in, and how to issue "smart redirects" when a user requests a certain application page but is not yet logged in.

ColdFusion MX 6 Login Security
Some of the tutorials I've created have spawned from user demand. This one definitely falls into that category. I've responded to well over two dozen questions/inquiries regarding how to build a secure login. Finally, I decided to write up a tutorial and publish the information on my site. This tutorial features a session-based login procedure that is tied directly to a database. It ensures that users must log in to a Web site before they are allowed to view or access any ColdFusion templates. Additionally, if a users session times out, and they attempt to refresh the page they left in their browser - or any other page within the application - they will be redirected to the login template. The tutorial also outlines how to use ColdFusion's built-in Hash() function in order to encrypt passwords.

Flash Remoting (Object Passing)
This article focuses on passing objects created in ColdFusion to a FlashMX application. I'll create a CFC function that will assemble a structure of queries and return the structure. I'll also write a FlashMX function that will call the CFC function and parse the return object for display. If you are unsure how to pass a simple structure (or complex structure) from ColdFusion to Flash, and are not clear on how to parse the object in Flash, this tutorial is for you.