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Import Real-Time Bing Search Results in ColdFusion to Build Applications


Use CData ODBC drivers to import and use Bing Search results in ColdFusion.

Adobe ColdFusion is a web and mobile application development platform. It uses its own scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), to create data-driven websites as well as generate remote services, such as REST. When ColdFusion is paired with the CData ODBC Driver for Bing Search, you can link your ColdFusion web and mobile applications to operational Bing Search data. This allows for your applications to be more robust and complete. This article details how to use the ODBC driver to create a table populated with Bing Search data from within a ColdFusion markup file.

To follow along with this tutorial, you need to install the CData ODBC Driver for Bing Search and Adobe ColdFusion.

Configuring the Connection

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (Data Source Name). This is the last step of the driver installation process. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

To connect to Bing, set the ApiKey connection property. To obtain the API key, sign into Microsoft Cognitive Services and register for the Bing Search APIs.

Two API keys are then generated; select either one.

When querying tables, the SearchTerms parameter must be supplied in the WHERE clause.

Adding a Data Source and Creating a Table

After creating a DSN, follow the steps below to add a new data source, test our connection to it, create a ColdFusion markup file, and, finally, import Bing Search Bing Search results and display it in a table in ColdFusion:

  1. From the ColdFusion administrator interface, choose Data & Services.
  2. Here, click "Add New Data Source". The data source name can be any name, provided it conforms to the ColdFusion variable naming conventions. For our ODBC driver, choose "ODBC Socket", then click the "Add" button.
  3. From the ODBC DSN Dropdown menu select CData Bing Search Sys. Under the Advanced Settings section, leave the Connection String blank. Note that any properties specified in this input field will override the ones specified in the DSN Configuration.
  4. Now, test the connection by pressing the check mark to the left of the CDataBing SearchODBC data source you just created. When the data source reports an "OK" status, it is ready for use.
  5. Next, create a new ColdFusion Markup file (.cfm) and place it in the wwwroot directory ("C:\ColdFusion2021\cfusion\wwwroot") for ColdFusion.

    The following code queries the data source: 

                
        <cfquery name="Bing SearchQuery" dataSource="CDataBing SearchODBC"> 
          SELECT * FROM VideoSearch 
        </cfquery>
    And a CFTable can be used to quickly output the table in HTML: 
                
          <cftable  
          query = "Bing SearchQuery" 
          border = "1" 
          colHeaders 
          colSpacing = "2" 
          headerLines = "2" 
          HTMLTable 
          maxRows = "500" 
          startRow = "1"> 

          <cfcol header="<b>Title</b>" align="Left" width=2 text="Title"/> 

          <cfcol header="<b>ViewCount</b>" align="Left" width=15 text="ViewCount"/> 

          ...

        </cftable>
    Full code, including the HTML portion is available below: 
                
        <html> 
        <head><title>CData Software | Bing Search VideoSearch Table Demo </title></head> 
        <body> 
        <cfoutput>#ucase("Bing Search VideoSearch Table Demo")#</cfoutput> 
        <cfquery name="Bing SearchQuery" dataSource="CDataBing SearchODBC"> 

          SELECT * FROM VideoSearch 

        </cfquery> 
        <cftable  
          query = "Bing SearchQuery" 
          border = "1" 
          colHeaders 
          colSpacing = "2" 
          headerLines = "2" 
          HTMLTable 
          maxRows = "500" 
          startRow = "1"> 
          <cfcol header="<b>Title</b>" align="Left" width=2 text="Title"/> 

          <cfcol header="<b>ViewCount</b>" align="Left" width=15 text="ViewCount"/> 

          ...

        </cftable> 
        </body> 

        </html>
  6. Finally, run the code in a browser. It produces a table populated with Bing Search data!

As a note, the CData ODBC Drivers also support parameterized queries using the cfqueryparam element. For example: SELECT * FROM Account WHERE name =

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