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Cold Fusion tutorials from beginner to advanced

http://www.easycfm.com/tutorials/index.cfm?dirView=True

Explanation of the different  ColdFusion functions and tags

http://www.easycfm.com/cflanguage/

Free multimedia ColdFusion tutorial "A Beginner's Guide to Coldfusion 4.5"

http://www.mallisoft.com/mallisoft/coldf...orials.htm

Additional ColdFusion resources:

http://www.gosearchfor.com/directory/Com...ColdFusion

Is anyone using ColdFusion? The costs involved seem a bit high to me without any perceptable advantage. Also it seems like you'd have a much smaller community of shoulders to cry on when you need help making something work.

Coldfusion and PHP perform about the same for light to medium use. PHP outperforms Coldfusion in terms of speed once you hit around 100,000 page views per day.  Neither is really suitable for very heavy traffic or workloads (Unlike PHP scripts, Coldfusion can handle huge amounts of traffic, but the performance hit it takes once it hits 100K pages make it a bad choice for anything over 100K per day).  For heavy lifting something written in C/C++ is a much better choice.

We moved the back end of our metasearch engines to C++ late last year because PHP couldn't handle the work load without slowing to a crawl (we kept the php user interface though). The  WebCrossing forum software  written in C++ on one of our sites is 6 years old and yet outperforms the new PHP software on TulipTools in terms of speed and it can handle an unlimited amount of traffic whereas a php script  can't.  

A comparison of C++ and PHP http://www.janitha.com/archives/38

Quote:C++ outdid php in every single test. The least performance gain c++ took over php was in outputting the loop results into stdout (when its printing out stuff) with a factor of ~1.07 and c++ outdid php the most in just running through a loop (doing sorting, internal calculations) by c++ doing it almost 90 times faster than php.

If you use a lot of Flash in your applications I'd go with ColdFusion over PHP.