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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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W here
can I learn more about Cold Fusion ?
Check out our Tutorials, Manuals and Links pages on our support site.
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