Amy wrote: > An important difference between ColdFusion and php, as you rightly > pointed out, is that php is installed on the server only--you don't
so is cf. > need any special software to write php code, and you don't need any > background knowledge other than what you need for any other web > technoloty. I don't know much about ColdFusion, but I do know that > the pages are compiled, so I wouldn't be able to just walk in and use > CF without at least figuring out how to go from source code to > compiled whatever. There are probably several other things like that you write the code (any old text editor will do), put it up on your cf server & it compiles the code & runs it. all you need to do is simply "call" that code from your browser. period. > that you need to learn in CF before you can actually become > productive, so it's not just installation time, it's that whole other > mass of "stuff" you need to know before you can use CF. like what? SQL? CSS? HTML? oh wait, you need to know the same for PHP, don't you? no, you don't need to know any sort of "mass of stuff" to work w/cf (well other than cf but then again you need to know PHP before you can develop applications w/it too). it seems your opinions about cf are pretty much all wrong.
