> I've gotta disagree - self posting pages are much shorter and sweeter
> than cramming misc. form data into session just to carry it between
> forms, validation, processing, and the "thanky." In fact, they form
> the core of some other web app technologies (ASP.NET).
Yup, Joe is spot on here. Posting to a separate page is certainly
possible but error handling and redisplaying the form become a royal
pain.
> I think Sean ran the PHP blog because it's what was available at the
> time
I've had a website since 1995 and when I moved to the US in 1999 I
switched from a UK host to a US host that offered PHP for $10 / month.
At that point I hadn't joined Macromedia and I hadn't heard of
ColdFusion. I joined Macromedia in July 2000 and Macromedia bought
Allaire in early 2001 - that was my first experience of ColdFusion! I
started my blog in June 2002 after my boss, Jeremy Allaire, suggested
it. I used Blogger.com for a while, then switched to Movable Type
(written in Perl). For the last couple of years I'd maintained that if
I could find a CF-powered host that offered LAMP for no more than what
I was paying, I'd switch. Well, traffic went up on the blog until I
had to upgrade my account to get more bandwidth. I was paying $25 /
month but still had problems finding a LAMP CF account until someone
recently pointed me at SmarterLinux ($15 / month) so I switched
immediately.
> - I can't remember what, but for a while, it seemed like you
> either ran a PHP blog like moveableType or wrote your own, and having
> done the latter, it's the real PITA here.
Yup. Which is why I adopted Ray's Blog CFC app rather than write my
own. Although I'm now reworking the front end to use Fusebox 4.1.
--
Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/
Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/
"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
-- Margaret Atwood
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