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Client Support - Cold Fusion FAQ
Cold Fusion gives developers a powerful tool for creating dynamic Web applications and interactive sites. Cold Fusion gives developers a way to quickly build powerful Web applications which integrate with key server technologies such as databases and SMTP e-mail. Applications are created by combining the server-side Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) with HTML. Since Cold Fusion integrates its special coding with normal HTML codes, any standard web authoring tool that allows editing of HTML can be used. This means that all development and debugging of a Cold Fusion application can take place right on Global Presence's servers. Allaire also has a new product called Studio that integrates HTML coding with Cold Fusion coding and remote "one-button" publishing. It's a very nice tool to have. No. Cold Fusion is already installed on your server however you may wish to purchase a copy of Cold fusion to test development on your local machines. You can use any ODBC-compliant database such as FoxPro, Access, Paradox, etc. Global Presence also supports Microsoft SQL Server on its Windows Platinum host plan. Please contact support@globalpresence.ca for assistance with setting up your databases. Global Presence is committed to always providing the latest version of Cold Fusion on its servers. Currently we are running Cold Fusion 4.51. Yes, we support both CFX tags and CFFile tags. Several CFX tags are currently available on our servers. If there is a tag you would like us to add, contact support@paconline.net. We will examine each tag for stability before using on our servers and will 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. Yes, we support all released fuel packs. Yes, you can use both in your Web site, although not easily on the same page. More information about Cold Fusion is available on Allaire's Web site. 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 clients to copy any new databases to the server under a different name than the active database. Once copied, you should e-mail support@globalpresence.ca. We will usually make the change within 15 minutes after receiving the request during normal support hours. If you are experiencing a problem or don't understand a feature of Global Presence's services and your question is not answered in this FAQ, please contact us. |
