ColdFusion

Cold Fusion is a invaluable Web application development tool for anyone who wants to use the Web to create dynamic-page applications and interactive Web sites on corporate intranets and the Internet. Cold Fusion gives developers a way to quickly build powerful Web applications which integrate with key server technologies such as relational databases and SMTP e-mail.

Cold Fusion is designed to meet the particular needs of Web application developers. It offers a straightforward server-side markup language, a powerful application server, and a complete framework for Web applications.

A Cold Fusion Web application begins with dynamic-page templates instead of static HTML documents. A template is simply a text file that contains both HTML and the Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML). Instead of being sent directly to the user’s browser, templates are pre-processed by the Cold Fusion application server which generates an HTML page that is then sent to the user’s browser. CFML is to the Web server what HTML is to the browser.

Dynamic-page applications are now used for a wide variety of computing needs including online commerce, communication, collaboration, interactive Web sites and intranet systems.

Invoking Coldfusion on your Virtual Server

1. ftp into coldfusion.your_domain.com
   cd htdocs
   put your template files here

2. And in your forms:

Reference it with "http://coldfusion.your_domain.com/your_domain/template.cfm"