[WEB4LIB] RE: Web Form and Access Database

[Karen Harker]

Cold Fusion is very flexible and can be used for small and/or simple sites, as well as very large & complex sites.  The main advantage of CF is the CFML (Cold Fusion Markup Language) which makes programming much easier than Java, ASP, etc.  

It is not cheap, but it's not terribly expensive either (I think it is around $3000 w/educational discount).  Plus there is that feature-limited free version...this will enable you to do the basics of selecting rows from a table and displaying them on a web page, inserting rows into a table, and updating tables.  

There is a learning curve, but it is much more shallow than the above mentioned methods.




Karen R. Harker, MLS
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-1698
http://www.swmed.edu/library/

>>> Ruth Harrison <Ruth.Harrison at sll.state.tx.us> 3/27/02 11:39:33 AM >>>

I don't know very much about Cold Fusion.  But I've been told that it
may be a bit much for my library.  We're very small and I've been told
that Cold Fusion is usually reserved for an extremely large enterprise,
like an academic library or a corporation.  Is that usually the case?


Ruth Harrison
Texas State Law Library
P O Box 12367
Austin TX 78711-2367
512.463.1724
512.463.1728 Fax
512.463.1722 Circ/Ref
http://www.sll.state.tx.us
ruth.harrison at sll.state.tx.us


-----Original Message-----
From: John Dooley [mailto:dooleyj at memphis.lib.tn.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:39 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Web Form and Access Database

We have several Cold Fusion/Access web applications that have been
running quite reliably on our public web site for several years.  

The documentation that comes with Cold Fusion is excellent, and there is
a series of books by Ben Forta that make this environment very
accessible.

By all means, if you want to write code, try some of the "free" coding
environments and become a uber-programmer, but if you would rather just
have to learn a few more html like tags, then Cold Fusion works well.

You can see our apps at:

http://www.memphislibrary.lib.tn.us/about/jobapp.cfm
http://www.memphislibrary.lib.tn.us/humanities/blist4.cfm
http://www.memphislibrary.lib.tn.us/reviews/Adult/wrreview.cfm

Good Luck!

John Dooley
Computer Resources Librarian / Webmaster
Automated Services
Memphis Shelby County Public Library and Information Center.
3030 Poplar Ave.
Memphis TN 38111-3527
ph 901-415-2806
email dooleyj at memphis.lib.tn.us
www www.memphislibrary.lib.tn.us



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