Thoughts on cold fusion

?? never used it.. was just interested in some opinions on it in comparison to the moer commonly used web languages like PHP, ASP, .NET
Thanks

 

me too, but ive heard it was a bit of a fad made for Macromedia's web-dev stuff...

ive heard it uses tags and stuff like HTML, and its database access is very fast, but im not sure how well supported it is and whether overall its worth it.

awaiting someone more experienced than me to reply still !

 

It just seemed like it was not as low level a "language" like PHP, ASP, .NET..

 

http://forums.devshed.com/f84/s94020873198718125b6a971c76debb54
Hang out around, well i nthe php/c++ forum
maybe they can help
Basiclys its liek a markup language, can be coded in easily and costs big bucks to get the software for

 

The basic opinion I have seen about it is that it was designed for people with a background in HTML and no experience with programming at all. That means it can be very easy for newbies to learn, but for experenced coders, I think it means you have to relearn things you don't need to with PHP or ASP.

It makes no sense to me, since if you're dealing with server-side scripting, you should be familiar with JavaScript. It generally goes HTML --> DHTML --> SS scripting. There is no reason to use CF anymore. .ASP has better integration with business apps (i.e., MS apps) and PHP is free. Business tend to go either Win2k/IIS/MS SQL/ASP or Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. Or Solaris/Apache/Oracle/PHP, I guess.

The only place I see it anymore is for message boards. Anandtech's message boards are CF-based, for example.

 

I do .asm I've looked into CF and from what I saw it was so-so... I'll just stick to PHP myself....

 

You have confirmed my suspicions.. thanks

 

Well, you could make a web server and then you'd need hardly any scripting at all! Make one completley customised, that will do what you want it to without relying on passing pages and stuff.

but it would be hard to try and update it tho! eeesh