Coldfusion 5 to cold fusion mx 6.1 question

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sbalen

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I appreciate this feedback, keep the suggestions coming and I will dole out more points!

Hi sbalen,
Just a polite reminder: The max points you can assign is 500 for any Question.
Regards,
---Pinal

sbalen

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can I split it up amongst good answers?

Hi sbalen,
yes you can sure do that. You can split 500 points among all the good answer. :)
Regards,
---Pinal

One more tag to watch: cfhttp.

It was improved and now works great in 6.1 and 7. In 4.5 we used a cfx which was better but not perfect.

that is true but that cfx will still work with hte new version :)

Correct pinal - I see that my explanation wasnt very good.

I wanted to point out that you should move to the native CF tag in MX for a speed increase and better handling for timeout and errors.

Here are some articles on porting from cf 5 to cf mx:

http://www.nonliteral.com/articles/converting-from-coldfusion-5-to-coldfusion-mx/

And articles on the new features, tags, attributes, and functions in the 3 different versions:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00000212.htm

http://www.petefreitag.com/tag/coldfusion_7

Goodluck with the port!

andw928,

The last 2 links you have posted are specific to version 7 - sbalen says they are moving to 6.1.

Pete Freitags page is very good and informative, but alot of that information is very specific to CFMX7.

The livedocs article is also for CFMX 7 - one example of differences between 6.1 and 7 is cfchart is different.

Whilst the articles may have useful info in them, alot of the information wont work in 6.1

Okay, then cross out the last link, but the link before the last one doesn't only show changes for version 7, it shows for CFMX and 6.1 as well, look on the right side where it says "Added in this ColdFusion release".

You will see:

"ColdFusion MX 6.1"
"ColdFusion MX"
"ColdFusion MX 7"

Therefore, I'm sure sbalen is knowledgeable enough to look at only the ones that correspond to MX and MX 6.1.

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substand - I agree - I would recommend against them even in CF 5. Macromedia engineers have told me there are known bugs and they don't care since they expect people to move away from them as they become more advanced at writing CF, those are in place for beginners or simple sites.

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I got a kick out of the bug that gives an error when using cfupdate... make absolutely no changes to the code and just hit refresh a couple of times, and it works again. so random.

I wonder why it is so hard for them to fix a <cfupdate>, all it is is a simple query that updates, I don't understand how it can have bugs.

mrichmon

>> I wonder why it is so hard for them to fix a <cfupdate>, all it is is a simple query that updates
You would think...

But they don't really care from what I could tell. They say it works in the simple situations most of the time (I have found this not to even be true) and they know that the poeple that use CF in enterprise level applications - the ones that will get CF noticed - don't use it anyway so it is really the amateur or beginner that uses those tags and so to Macromedia they are the "little fish" I guess.

I agree. We even do not use <cfquery to run query we use all the stored procedure so use mostly <cfstoreproc....

If Macromedia would drop all these newbie tags from Coldfusion, then I think Coldfusion wouldn't last too long, that's why they keep these types of tags, and the tag-based language itself. Actually, I think the whole point of Coldfusion is to simplify, was it even meant for Enterprise level apps? I don't think so, we have JSP and Java for that.

I use cfquery, since MySQL 5.0 has sstored procedures but taht isn't even released yet.

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