Using Display and Formatting Functions

During the last several procedures, you have retrieved and output data from a database. The FirstName, LastName, and Contract fields look fine, but the Salary contains no currency information and the StartDate column data is difficult to read.

ColdFusion provides a complete set of functions that you can use to control the display and formatting of:

Dates
Times
Currency
Numbers
HTML
Paragraphs

During this chapter, you will learn how to use the:

DollarFormat( ) function to format the data in the salary column
DateFormat( ) function to format the data in the StartDate column

Refer to the CFML Language Reference for ColdFusion Express for a list of functions and their syntax.