
January 5th, 2004, 08:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Re: Is purchasing ColdFusion necessary
Quote: Originally posted by breadwild
A new customer has asked me to edit/add a couple of things on his ColdFusion-driven site. Normally I do all development in Perl and MySQL, but the host only supports CF and a MS SQL db. I know little about CF.
Question is, can I just hard code CF pages in my editor (BBEdit) and upload them? What does one get when they actually purchase CF?
Thanks. | CF is a server-side engine based on Java, kind of like PHP except it is a tag-based language instead of script-based. You need to buy CF Server if you are running a server, but for development you can code in any text editor. You can also download and use the free single-user server version for development. It only lets one IP address connect to the server, so you can't run a real site on it, but it works fine for local development.
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