Contents:

• Requirements
• Installation & Configuration
• Admin Console
• I.C.E. Concepts
• Create New Site
• Create New Channel
• Create New Page
• Create New Media
• Add I.C.E. Users
• Create New Component
• Create New Container
• Create New Language
• Create New Label
• Finding & Managing Site Assets
• Uploading Files
• I.C.E. Settings
• Send Messages
• Manage Tasks
• Custom Database Tables
• I.C.E. Widgets
• To Publish or Not?
• URL and Session Variables

Create New Component

Components are a Coldfusion feature that allows developers to separate Site design from programming logic. Typically components handle storing and retrieving data to and from a database, handling file uploads etc.

Only experienced Coldfusion programmers should create New Components. I.C.E. CMS allows you to create and manage components, which you can then use in your Channels or Containers.

Create New Component

Select Component in the Create drop-down. Enter a name (single word without the .cfc extension) for your Component in the Component Title field and an optional Description of what the Component does. Next enter the Code for the Component in CFML. The code you enter here is exactly the same as what you would write if you were writing the component manually. Set the Status to Active and click Save.

Components you create are stored at ice/sites/[SITE FOLDER]/components/[COMPONENT TITLE].cfc

Using Components

To use a Component, you invoke it in a Channel (Index Template Code or Page Template Code fields) or ideally in a Container just like you would any Coldfusion Component.

Example Code:

<cfinvoke component="ice.sites.[SITE FOLDER].components.[COMPONENT NAME WITHOUT EXTENSION]" returnvariable="[A VARIABLE NAME]">