If the developer already has an application server technology he's using, why go through the trouble of integrating it with ColdFusion in the first place? Any of the myriad in-line tagged scripting languages are more than capable of running database queries (though not quite as gracefully as CF, of course).
However, if he's got, say a PHP-based application and wants to integrate CF into it via some occasional calls to the server for this query or that - I can't see how that maintains "maximum flexibility", since you'd be essentially maintaining two separate languages that don't particularly communicate well with each other. That said, CF5 and PHP (and Perl and Python and Java, etc, etc...) support WDDX and that could certainly be a useful tool for making CF and the other server play nice. - Jim -----Original Message----- From: Boldacious [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: cold fusion sites on non CF server Hi I'm working on some sites with a database developer who has about 20 years more experience with computing than I have. We are developing some second hand bookshop sites and my friend keeps wanting to have code re-useable and as generic as possible which I try and do. However he also wants the sites to ba able to live on non CF servers then just call stuff we need from a CF server elsewhere. He says this gives us maximum flexibility. I can do this for searches and updating data (the databases are on a cf server we have) However I keep telling him that there is plenty of other stuff that needs the pages to live on the cf server and that CF was designed to be used with a cf server. As I have far less experience than him - he is not convinced - can anyone tell me if a) I am right b) what do I tell him?? (Using CF5) Many thanks Seamus Seamus Campbell Boldacious WebDesign http://www.boldacious.com ~~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph 02 6297 4883 fax 02 6297 8464 mob 0410 609 267 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
