Hi Lester

you're wrong...

ColdFusion MX supports many(may be all) DB, supporting ODBC, JDBC and
native drivers...

BlueDragon(www.newatlanta.com) is a CF-like app for free...

I'll be visiting that FB-php site now...

Thanx for your time.
--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...>
wrote:

> marcoacs2001 wrote:
>
> > our target is web apps using ColdFusion MX and relational

databases.

> > By now our need is converting all My$QL client database to free,

open

> > source and great FB 1.5... talk more about Fulda conference...

and

> > your PHP app to convert...
>
> ColdFusion and open source in the same application ? :)
>
> It was my understanding that ColdFusion had a rather restricted set

of

> databases that it supported, and that you needed to have the

Enterprise

> version for a more flexible range. But I may be wrong there - I

stopped

> even looking at Macromedia when I saw the price tag ;) and it

insisted

> on loading MySQL for the demo ...
>
> I do know that it will support PHP development, and we use that
> exclusively for web development. The ADOdb database abstraction

layer

> allows you to connect to both MySQL and Firebird (at the same

time), and

> copy things between the two. TikiPro, a branch of the TikiWiki

project

> uses ADOdb to provide a range of database engines, and the script
> conversion was part of that project. I say was, because the

installer

> now uses ADOdb's DataDictionary to provide a generic model of the
> database, which is built for each engine directly, rather than

having to

> run specific scripts. If you want to discuss this further, I would
> suggest we switch to the firebird-php list, where all of the

problems

> related to PHP use is discussed.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-php
>
> This list is for more general non-technical discussions.
>
> --
> Lester Caine
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