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netsrek
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May 16, 2008
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Why ColdFusion

  • May 16, 2008
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Why have you decided to code using ColdFusion over an open source solution such as PHP?
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MaryJo
Inspiring
May 21, 2008
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Originally posted by: netsrek
Why have you decided to code using ColdFusion over an open source solution such as PHP?
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Also, we now have an open source option for doing CFML so that's not even much of an argument now either.

http://www.openbluedragon.org/

There is another neat alternative engine as well known as Railo which is getting some interest and depending on your needs can be fairly cheap or even free, I'm running a customer's site and really am impressed with it...and the great support its authors provide.

http://www.railo-technologies.com/en/index.cfm

ColdFusion (or more accurately CFML) really seems to be on the move!
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Paul9856147
Participant
June 2, 2008
A major benefit of ColdFusion is its immense capability to connect Web pages to databases in order to provide dynamic and data-driven solutions. Other benefits of ColdFusion include platform independent database querying, effective sharing of application data, easy access to databases, and maintaining state information. It also offers advanced database techniques for data manipulation and active interaction with other data sources, including LDAP directories, email servers, and other web servers too. ColdFusion focuses on efficient utilization of the database features like drill-down queries, stored procedures, transaction management and task scheduling. ColdFusion also performs client and server cache management.

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Hydrowizard
Inspiring
June 3, 2008
What can php do better than coldfusion 8? Interested to know if there is anything (I only know php a bit but was interested by ian's answer) It would be interesting for the cfers to know (to be hits at parties etc.)
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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
May 18, 2008

> Why have you decided to code using ColdFusion over an open source solution
> such as PHP?

For me, I'd learned a bit of PHP but really wasn't picking it up.
I needed to program for some things (not heavy duty) but I didn't
want to become a "programmer". I kept hearing about CF and
that it was easy for the novice so I finally tried it. I agree, it was
very easy for me to pick up what I needed. Well - not that I never
have questions, but that I didn't feel totally in a foreign land!


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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
May 17, 2008
netsrek wrote:
> Why have you decided to code using ColdFusion over an open source solution such as PHP?

- connecting to flex/air front ends is drop dead simple w/cf
- while greatly improved, php's i18n functionality still sucks compared to cf
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paross1
Participating Frequently
May 16, 2008
Why not? Pick one:

It is better
It is easier to use
I am crazy
I don't know any better
Aliens made me
I like spending my company's money for "cool stuff"

Phil
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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
May 16, 2008
netsrek wrote:
> Why have you decided to code using ColdFusion over an open source solution such as PHP?
> Thanks

Because the organization I work for, after a thorough cost analysis
that recognizes that there is more to the cost of an application then
just the license 'cost' of the application server, has determined that
ColdFusion is a better value then PHP.

Of course my employment here is a bit self-selective since I am working
here because of my experience and knowledge with ColdFusion.

I hope that was a tasty snack for the tr.....


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netsrekAuthor
Participant
May 16, 2008
Is it also a factor because it is quicker to develop using CF than PHP?
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