Just to add to this discussion a bit, I currently work at a development agency that's running Coldfusion MX7.02 on Windows with IIS. We mostly use model-glue framework[1] as well, just to speed up development time and reusability of our code. I am also a freelance PHP developer, which is where I started. I "learned" coldfusion in about 3 weeks while I was also learning a new company's way of doing things. Personally, I still like PHP better as the community as a whole is larger and seems more helpful than what I'm found with ColdFusion. But in addition to the Lynda.com tutorial and the CFWACK that was mentioned before, I also suggest you start subscribing to a few ColdFusion blog's RSS and possibly even some podcasts (YES! there really are Coldfusion Podcasts!) Some of the blogs I read include Firemoss by Joe Rhinehart[2] (one, if not the, developer of model-glue) and Ray Camden's Blog by Ray Camden[3] who is also one of the major authors of the CFWACK. Ray Camden does a good job of answering questions and then posting the answers/solutions on his blog. No doubt you'll run into a few complications that he's already answered and having already read it, you'll know how to fix your issue. He does also cater toward the CF community as a whole instead of Rhinehart who does more of the model-glue and Flex CF community.
Bruce, you asked about SEO for changing urls and things like that. Our firm also does SEO and I do a great majority of its implementation. A lot of what we do for making SEO friendly URLs is done at a programming level in addition to a URL rewrite package. These are very helpful for changing urls from http://www.mysite.com/myblog/the-cool-article/ into something usable on the CF side like http://www.mysite.com/blog/index.cfm?postid=7. Depending on your server set up, you may not have the capabilities to do this. If you're running Apache[4] webserver, it comes with mod_rewrite[5] built in and is typically enabled on shared hosting. If you're with IIS, it has no built-in URL rewrite engine but has plugins like isapi_rewrite[6] that does the same as mod_rewrite. Basically, if you're really set on using SEO-friendly URLs, you'll need to make sure your hosting set up has either mod_rewrite or something comparable to it on the Window's side. Then, you'll have to learn the syntax as well which is a form of Regular Expressions. Hope that gives you some ideas of where to look and what to look at! Jeff Meagher [1] http://www.model-glue.com [2] http://firemoss.com/blog/ [3] http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/ [4] http://httpd.apache.org/ [5] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html [6] http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/ <snip!> -- doing my part to keep this discussion "clean" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/message.cfm/messageid:3549 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
