Thursday, November 27, 2003

Today I decided to broaden my skills once more now that I understand a bit of ColdFusion and so I took on Flash Remoting in a head to head battle! First of all there was a reason for this as I am currently building a site for my boss in Flash and he wants to be able to update it easily, now I was thinking about doing it in XML as I have done previously for a client but I found it a little slow and unpredictable - probably due to my coding (although I did use a healthy chunk from Branden and Sam's book.)

Anyway I have temporarily used one of my client's databases hosted on Austiger as they have CFMX and Flash Remoting installed. I created a new table to test things out and after a few hours of scratching my head I finally worked a few things out, it seems pretty easy to create CFC's especially when you want to get all the latest news from a table, I just "select *', piece of cake! I have the recordset then output as html text into a scrolling textfield eh voila! The beauty of this is that within 10 minutes I had built a basic CMS in Coldfusion to enter new news entries into the database so my boss can do it himself!

Now I just have to convince my boss to switch hosts so I can implement this on the new live site (once it is finished that is...)

Jon 6:09 PM Permalink