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What is Cold Fusion?
Do I need any special tools to use Cold Fusion?
Do I have to buy Cold Fusion?
What version of Cold Fusion do you support?
Do you support CFX Tags? CFFILE Tags?
What databases can I use with Cold Fusion?
When I need to update my database can I just FTP over the old one?
Can I use Cold Fusion with Active Server Pages?
Where can I learn more about Cold Fusion?
What is Cold Fusion?
Cold Fusion is a Web application development tool for people who
want to use the Web to create dynamic-page applications and
interactive Web sites on corporate intranets and the
Internet. Cold Fusion gives developers a way to quickly
build powerful Web applications which integrate with key
server technologies such as relational databases and SMTP
e-mail.
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Do I need any special tools to use Cold Fusion?
No. Since Cold Fusion integrates its special coding with normal
HTML codes, any standard web authoring tool that allows
editing of HTML can be used. However, if you plan to
do heavy development work with Cold Fusion, we recommend
that you purchase a copy of Cold Fusion Studio to do all
your development locally, and only copy the finished product
to our servers.
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Do I have to buy Cold Fusion?
No. However, see previous question..
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What version of Cold Fusion do you support?
All our servers currently use version 4.5.1 We are committed to
always providing the latest production version of Cold
Fusion on our servers.
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Do you support CFX Tags ? CFFILE Tags?
Yes, we support both CFX tags and CFFile
tags. If there is a tag you would like us add, contact support@xhost.co.uk.
We will examine each tag for stability before using on our
servers and we do reserve the right to not load any tags we
feel may compromise the stability of our systems.
We also allow CFFILE. However, we need all
our users to let us know if they will be using this
facility.
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What databases can I use with Cold Fusion ?
You should use an ODBC-compliant database such Microsoft
Access, or Microsoft SQL Server. Please contact support@xhost.co.uk.
for help in setting up your databases.
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When I need to update my database can I just FTP over the old
one?
No. Because of the way Cold Fusion accesses
ODBC databases, you will often be unable to copy over a
database. More importantly, your database is 'live,' meaning
there is a constant possibility someone will try to access
your database while you are copying over your new database.
This can often lead to a corrupted database.
To get around these issues, we ask all
customers to copy any new databases to the server under a
different name than the active database. Once copied, they
should either email support@xhost.co.uk
. We will usually make the change within 30 minutes after
receiving the request during normal support hours.
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Can I use Cold Fusion with Active Server Pages ?
You can use both in your website, although not easily on the
same page. Although ASP is powerful, we recommend clients
use Cold Fusion if they are starting from no knowledge of
either as many find it easier to learn from scratch.
However, there are things which Cold Fusion can not do that
ASP can. If you wish to discuss your needs and what may be
the best method of implementing your particular Internet
application, contact support@xhost.co.uk..
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Where can I learn more about Cold Fusion ?
Check out our Tutorials, Manuals and Links
pages on our support
site, or visit the Allaire.
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