Should I buy Coldfusion 8 for testing?

[Guest]

The company has Coldfusion 7 and I used it for testing the code locally in conjunction with Dreamweaver.

Does Adobe have a development server version of CF 8 to test locally before it gets uploaded to the outside web servers... or do I need to upgrade/purchase CF8?

Thanks for the help!!!

[Newsgroup_User]

Yes there is a Developer version of ColdFusion 8.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=coldfusion

BTW there was also a Developer version of ColdFusion 7

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Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert Dreamweaver/ColdFusion
Adobe Certified Expert - Dreamweaver CS3
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com


"dennisquery" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> The company has Coldfusion 7 and I used it for testing the code locally in
> conjunction with Dreamweaver.
>
> Does Adobe have a development server version of CF 8 to test locally
> before it
> gets uploaded to the outside web servers... or do I need to
> upgrade/purchase
> CF8?
>
> Thanks for the help!!!
>

[BKBK]

CF8.0.1 Developer Edition is free.

[Guest]

I appreciate your answer.

If the webservers support CF8... would it be ok to have a compilation of the CF7 code along with the CF8 in the website code.. ?

Thanks

[Newsgroup_User]

As far as I know, there were no CFML items that were deprecated in CF 8:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags-pt0_21.html

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=CFXRef_C_03.html

So you should be OK.

--
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert Dreamweaver/ColdFusion
Adobe Certified Expert - Dreamweaver CS3
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com


"dennisquery" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I appreciate your answer.
>
> If the webservers support CF8... would it be ok to have a compilation of
> the CF7 code along with the CF8 in the website code.. ?
>
> Thanks

[rollerskatie]

We've just upgraded our site from Coldfusion 7 to Coldfusion 8 because we changed hosts. Whilst I did download the developer edition fo CF8 and test out the site before upgrading, I didn't need to change any of my code for it to work on the Coldfusion 8 server.

Of course, now I'm getting started learning all the fun stuff CF8 lets me do 🙂

[Guest]

very cool ... Thanks guys!