Welcome to ColdBox

Welcome to Coldbox!!

You are now running ColdBox 2.6.3 (RENEWED). Welcome to the next generation of ColdFusion applications. You can now start building your application with ease, we already did the hard work for you.

Getting Started

You have just auto-generated your application and are ready to customize your application. Several directories and files have been created for you. Please familiarize yourself with your application layout before customizing your application.

Good Starting Links

  1. Directory Structure & Conventions
  2. Coldbox.xml Guide
  3. Event Handler's Guide
  4. Request Context's Guide
  5. Layouts & Views Guide
  6. My First ColdBox App
* Wiki Docs

 

ColdBox URL Actions

ColdBox can use some very important URL actions to interact with your application. You can try them out below:

  1. Reinitialize the framework (fwreinit=1)
  2. Remove Debug Mode (debugmode=false)
  3. Enable Debug Mode (debugmode=true)
* URL Actions Guide

 

Customizing your Application

You can now start editing your application and building great ColdBox enabled apps. Important files & locations:

  1. /config/coldbox.xml.cfm: Your application configuration file
  2. /config/environments.xml.cfm: Your per-tier settings
  3. /config/routes.cfm: Your SES routing table
  4. /handlers: Your Application controllers
  5. /includes: Assets, Helpers, i18n, templates and more.
  6. /includes/helpers: Place all your application and specific helpers here
  7. /layouts: Where you place all your application layouts
  8. /logs: The ColdBox Logs directory
  9. /model: The meat of your app, your business logic objects
  10. /plugins: Where you place custom plugins built by you!
  11. /test: Your unit testing folder (Just DO IT!!)
  12. /views: Where you create all your views and viewlets