Plus points of Coldfusion

[Nokia999]

can anybody tell me about plus points of coldfusion in comparison with php?

[J.P]

If you have a look here; http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/php_cfmx.html it's a PHP V CF document.

JP

[H-Man]

Cold fusion seems to me to be easier to implement. I also think the debugging is also better. But that might be because I have built a 150 sites in Coldfusion and 2 in PHP.

[Nokia999]

If you have a look here; http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/php_cfmx.html it's a PHP V CF document.

JP
Let me read it
Thank you for giving me this link.

[profs77]

Coldfusion is really good for generating graphs and charts and pdfs and flash animations on the fly. Its very expensive software though whereas php is free.

[Nokia999]

So it would need coldfusion supported webservers ?

[tbarr60]

So it would need coldfusion supported webservers ?

Yes, you need ColdFusion web application server on the web server. The good new is that there is plenty of inexpensive hosting at places like crystaltech.com, hostmysite.com, and godaddy.com. All of these are in the $15 per month or less range.

[Mitch]

CF is more fun.

This is the php code to write a file to your server:


<?
function WriteToFile($strFilename, $strText)
{
if($fp = @fopen($strFilename,"w "))
{
$contents = fwrite($fp, $strText);
fclose($fp);
return true;
}else{
return false;
}

}

WriteToFile('path/File.txt','test 123');

?>


This is the CF Code:


<cffile action="write" file="path_to_file" />

[Mitch]

The only downside to CF is that you have to pay for it. I like to think it pays for itself with the time it saves me.

[tbarr60]

At some hosts, ColdFusion costs $1.95. At bigger companies you hear, it's expensive but then they download some free tool like JBoss and hire three admins to support it. Nice (typical) code example.