ARTICLES & TUTORIALS FOR COLDFUSION DEVELOPMENT: A Collection of Links to Coldfusion Modules Tutorials, including topics such as Creating custom modules, writing pluggable & secure modules, and more topics.

Coldfusion Modules Tutorials - Custom Coldfusion Modules - Any ColdFusion application can be saved as a CommonSpot element, adopting all the characteristics of an element such as scheduling, personalization and security, and be placed on the page like any other element. Both unstructured and structured content can easily and seamlessly appear on the same page.

Writing Pluggeable Coldfusion Modules - Here's a small tutorial about a fairly simple technique which i use often and does the job. It ain't exactly fusebox (which i can recommend to you all, this technique works fine as a fuse too), but it is proper coding and it gets the job done.

Writing Pluggable ColdFusion Modules
When you have to bugfix, extend or review a ColdFusion application, there's a good chance that you'll find yourself browsing a directory tree representing the navigation on the site. Within these directories, typically some 40 or 50 files with names like list.cfm, insertform.cfm, insertaction.cfm, etc. reside.

Making ColdFusion Modules More Secure - While reading an article written by Matt Reider (Macromedia), I noticed the following tidbit that ensures that a CF module is not called directly via a URL.

The voting module - This module has three main purposed: Check if the user already have voted, if yes send user automatically to show vote results. Else let the user vote.Check if user has selected a question, if not show vote again.After user has voted start the module for new voting results