VFP/Coldfusion questions?

[William Fields]

Hello,

It seems that the Macromedia product suite is a very popular choice for web
site development in my business. I don't know too much about it yet, but
understand that "Coldfusion" requires a live server component, which I know
absolutely nothing about at all.

Any information you might have regarding Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Macromedia
et al... coming from a Visual Foxpro/Visual Studio developer perspective
would be appreciated.

We'll be starting to develop web services with VFP in the near future as
well as building a brand new website for our office (intranet and internet
sides), so I'm interested in how these technologies work together (or
don't).

Thanks for any input you might have.
--
William Fields
MCSD - Microsoft Visual FoxPro
US Bankruptcy Court
Phoenix, AZ

"Beer is proof that God loves us
and wants us to be happy."

- Benjamin Franklin

[Claude Fox]

I believe Cold Fusion works with COM servers. Alternatively, since you plan
on using vfp web services, you could use the same technology(vfp mtdlls) to
build regular web apps

Post by William Fields
Hello,
It seems that the Macromedia product suite is a very popular choice for
web site development in my business. I don't know too much about it yet,
but understand that "Coldfusion" requires a live server component, which I
know absolutely nothing about at all.
Any information you might have regarding Dreamweaver, Coldfusion,
Macromedia et al... coming from a Visual Foxpro/Visual Studio developer
perspective would be appreciated.
We'll be starting to develop web services with VFP in the near future as
well as building a brand new website for our office (intranet and internet
sides), so I'm interested in how these technologies work together (or
don't).
Thanks for any input you might have.
--
William Fields
MCSD - Microsoft Visual FoxPro
US Bankruptcy Court
Phoenix, AZ
"Beer is proof that God loves us
and wants us to be happy."
- Benjamin Franklin

[Christopher Jordan]

William, I don't know if I can help, and I see that it's been a while since
you asked your original question, but I write ColdFusion applications which
access data in FoxPro tables.

This is actually the reason I'm surfing this particular site now. Using the
ColdFusion Administrator, you set up a data source to which points to an
existing ODBC data source on your CF server.

Then accessing your datasource is as easy as:

<CFQuery name="MyQuery" datasource="MyODBCDataSource">
SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE column_name = 'SomePieceOfData'
</CFQuery>

Post by William Fields
Hello,
It seems that the Macromedia product suite is a very popular choice for web
site development in my business. I don't know too much about it yet, but
understand that "Coldfusion" requires a live server component, which I know
absolutely nothing about at all.
Any information you might have regarding Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Macromedia
et al... coming from a Visual Foxpro/Visual Studio developer perspective
would be appreciated.
We'll be starting to develop web services with VFP in the near future as
well as building a brand new website for our office (intranet and internet
sides), so I'm interested in how these technologies work together (or
don't).
Thanks for any input you might have.
--
William Fields
MCSD - Microsoft Visual FoxPro
US Bankruptcy Court
Phoenix, AZ
"Beer is proof that God loves us
and wants us to be happy."
- Benjamin Franklin