> Perhaps if I buy CF 5 now, I'll get a free upgrade to MX. > Hint, hint...(anyone from MM know of such a deal?) > To help us slow learners with learning curve? ;o)
If you do go this route, I would recommend staying away from regular expressions until you get to MX -- if you have any interrest in them. There are some syntactical / semantic differences between the way they work on CF 5 and the way they work on MX and if you get used to them in 5 you may struggle with the transition to MX just because the differences are very subtle. I'm not sure about query of queries, but I'd expect something similar there. I know that there have been changes to it in CF MX to allow for instance case-insensitive QoQ's... Which is something you had to work around in CF 5 by creating extra columns in all upper or lower case to use for QoQ's. In all honesty, I'd recommend just waiting for the 2nd updater for MX and going on ahead to MX personally. There are some behavioral differences between CF 5 and CFMX, like, in CF 5 <cfdirectory action="rename" directory="c:\temp" newdirectory="c:\temp"> works fine, but in MX it produces an error. It may seem silly, but if both of those were variables, and you weren't sure if they were the same, in MX you have to make sure you compare them and don't call the cfdirectory tag if they're the same ( even though the tag may just as well do nothing since there's nothing for it to do ), so you may find that you've familiarized yourself with the new tools in CF 5 only to be quite frustrated with very subtle, seemingly innoquous differences in the way they work in MX. s. isaac dealey 954-776-0046 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
