On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
Whether Cold Fusion might be a better choice depends on what you want to do. CF is very good for creating individual web pages that connect to databases and work with form and session variables. Using stylesheets and custom tags (written in CFML, Cold Fusion Markup Language), you can get a consistent look and feel if you want to. It's easier to connect to different databases and write queries in CF, because the connection can be changed easily and all your methods are not chopped up and isolated. CFML is very easy to use and read, and makes it easy to set local variables, something that is awkward in Zope.
One small thing to note: the dtml-set add-on makes local variables extremely clean: <dtml-set foo="'bar'"> for strings, replaces <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('foo','bar')"> <dtml-set foo="1+2"> for python expressions <dtml-set foo="'bar'" optional> replaces <dtml-unless foo> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('foo','bar')"> </dtml-unless> -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington