As Nitai says there a great many features in the nightly build which make OpenBD more comparable with CF9 and CF10 there are also OpenBD specific functions which are not present in ColdFusion at all which I use extensively.
However as the original poster was asking whether OpenBD is compatible with CF9 or CF10 the answer is it cannot be considered fully compatible with either. This is however is a considered choice on the part of the engine developers. So for complete compatibility I always think CF8 for CORE ignoring tags you shouldn't be using such as CFDIV and most of the important stuff from 9 and 10 is pretty much there if you use the nightly build excluding ORM as Nitai has said already. The installation should be easy check out the Viviotech installers for OpenBD Cheers A On 21 October 2012 12:44, Nitai @ Razuna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to chime in that OpenBD is not ACF 8 and "a bit more". > Please take a look at Notes of the nightly build > (http://openbd.org/notes/) and also at the manual at > http://openbd.org/manual/. There are MANY functions that are in par > with CF9/CF10/Railo. > > Yes, there are tags/functions not in place like ORM or cfinterface > (thus ColdBox not working). Also there are tags not available that > simply make no sense, like cfdiv or all the "suboptimal" Ajax calls > introduced in CF8 (if you need those you really should learn JQuery). > Else OpenBD works very well. > > Just want to set the record straight. Please feel free to use ACF or > Railo if that fits your job better. No one is forcing you to use > OpenBD. If you do, I'm sure you will like it. > > Kind Regards, > Nitai > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Adam Cameron > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In terms of cfml support you need to be thinking version 8 of coldfusion > >> with some v9 additions. > >> > >> Getting a version 8 book would probably be your best bet > >> > > > > TBH - and this will be an unpopular comment on this forum - if OpenBD > is as > > far behind the games as to be more like CF8 than CF10, you're perhaps > better > > off looking at Railo instead, which makes an effort to stay more up to > date > > with where where the language is heading. > > > > During my investigations into CFML idiosyncracies for the purposes of my > > blog I've tried t stay platform-neutral as much as I can (although my day > > job is ColdFusion), however increasingly often I'm finding code I write > > works fine on both ColdFusion and Railo, but find "oh... OpenBD hasn't > > implemented that yet". If I wrote code that - inadvertently - only ran > on > > ColdFusion I'd "neutralise" it to run on all three, but if it runs on > two of > > the three, I don't feel so compelled to make it work on the third, > instead > > thinking "well it should bloody keep up...". OpenBD is always the > > odd-one-out here. It is seeming less and less relevant to me, I'm afraid. > > > > To the OP: If you're just starting out, I'd lean towards Railo rather > than > > OpenBD. > > > > -- > > Adam > > > > -- > > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > > > -- > See for yourself how easy it is to manage files today. Join the revolution! > > Razuna - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution > http://www.razuna.com/ > > Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management > http://www.razuna.org/ > > Twitter - http://twitter.com/razunahq > Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/razunahq > Support Platform - http://getsatisfaction.com/razuna > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- Alex Skinner Managing Director Pixl8 Interactive Tel: +448452600726 Email: [email protected] Web: pixl8.co.uk -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
