Coldfusion 8 Functions

With Coldfusion 8 came many very interesting and very useful functions.

I will explain more about these functions at a later date but for now i will start off my explaining the sort of functions that Coldfusion provides us.

Date Functions

This usually goes without question for most server languages. but coldfusion allows you to call all the days of a week as a sting with the DayOfWeekAsString() function. it also has functions like DayOfYear(), DaysInMonth() and DaysInYear() which i wont even wast my time explaining what they do because they are self explanatory.

File Functions

Coldfusion hosts a vast array of file functions from FileOpen() and FileRead() to FileSetAccessMode() and FileSetAttribute() these functions can be very useful if you have to read uploaded files for example MS Word document.

Image Functions (My Favorite)

As obvious the image functions allow you to do just about anything to an image with its 48 Image functions. These functions range from resizing and cropping to layering, sharpening and rotating. The functions also allow you to draw images with a few examples here ImageDrawQuadraticCurve(), ImageDrawCubicCurve() and ImageDrawLines().

The List of functions continues and this will be the place to find all of the info and tutorials on how to use them.