I was at the DC WAMMO demo last night, and as soon as I left, thought
of a question I meant to ask: if one of the goals of Blackstone is to
simplify application development for the Dreamweaver crowd, has there
been any thought to the "last mile" of connecting a form back to the
database?
You've said [sorry if I misinterpret] that there's an aim at the "I
just want to e-mail the form response/insert the form response into a
table" crowd - which I think is absolutely great. One of the most
common questions I think this audience has is "Ok, I've made my form
in Dreamweaver, figured out this running it off the server thing, now
what?"
Would it be terribly hard to extend the CFFORM tag to generate a
self-posting form with a DATASOURCE and TABLENAME attribute that
created a self-posting form that used CFINSERT/CFUPDATE-ish generation
of "invisible" SQL to get people past the hurdle? Essential, provide
some simple data binding mechanism. Combined with the
automatic-pagination wizard I've seen in Dreamweaver, it could really
simplify / wizardify the development of simple master/detail CRUD
applications.
Of course, there's probably a DW wizard out there to do it already,
but if I hit alt-tab right now I got to studio :).
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Forta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:56:24 -0400
Subject: RE: Blackstone @ CF-FUN '04
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You could do that already, using Flash Communications Server, that is
exactly what it is designed to do, to keep an open connection between client
and server so as to allow back and forth interaction (including server
push).
--- Ben
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From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 9:00 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Blackstone @ CF-FUN '04
Joe Rinehart wrote:
> Flash supports XML sockets throught its XMLSocket object. :)
Neat, I wasn't aware of that!
So, you could write a true chat server using flash and CFML under
Blackstone that doesn't require constant repeating connections every
second or every few seconds.. with the socket open, Flash could send
data only when necessary, and receive data from CF only when there is
new data to be received.
Using current technology, you could only do this with flash making a
request every second or every few seconds to the web server, and that
would probably suck up a lot of bandwidth (I've seen flash chat rooms
that do this with ASP...
- Rick
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