| ColdFusion is a server
side scripting language, which is
executed by the ColdFusion application
server. ColdFusion works by executing
CFM templates, a mixture of HTML and
ColdFusion instructions to return
normal HTML to the requesting browser.
Often this will have included retrieving
data from a database and generating
web pages on the fly.
The ColdFusion (CF) application server
was first developed in 1995 by JJ
Allaire and is currently up to version
4.5. It exists in many incarnations,
CF Express, free but fairly limited
in it's power, ColdFusion Professional,
just about all the features that ColdFusion
server offers and ColdFusion Enterprise
with advanced load balancing and the
ability to spread tasks over a number
of servers with advanced security
features.
ColdFusion server supports many different
webservers on many different platforms;
e.g. Apache, IIS and NSAPI based webservers
amongst others and support Solaris,
HP-UX and Windows with rumours of
a Linux incarnation coming soon.
Now on to just how easy this 'lil
language is to program with!
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Tutorial] [CFML
Introduction] [CFML
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