ColdFusion 9

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Is it possible to write actual web applications with CF? Can you even do your typical "for" loops, manipulate string data, etc. Would you be able to write an ecommerce website? A blog? I've done some googling around, and I cannot find anything more advanced than pulling a query and spitting out the data into an HTML page. I can see the convenience by keeping the same tag syntax in everything, but beyond that, I can see it being a real mess. Maybe I'm just not seeing the right examples here.

Um, Yes? There are conditional tags (cfif, cfloop, etc.), and statements in CFScript that do the same. String, date manipulation. Structs, Arrays. XML manipulation. CFC's are abstract functions that can be called and invoked anywhere. The whole shebang is there.

In terms of a blog: http://blogcfc.riaforge.org/

More projects here:
http://www.riaforge.org/index.cfm?ev...category&id=14


In terms of just grabbing info from a database and spitting it out onto a page, I think CF makes that stupid easy, which is why it's used for that a lot.