It's easy to get things done / setup if you already know what you're
doing. But, lets compare apples to apples here.
It seems logical to me that someone wanting to install CF would start
at Adobe.com , and from there could easily find and download the
installers.
I chose, Products ColdFusion, and download Free Trial. Login and I can
either download the developer edition or the trial edition; with various
options for language and/or OS.
The CF install process is relatively painless across operating systems
and across web servers. I have no doubt Adobe (Macromedia / Allaire)
has devoted time to making that easy over the years.
I doubt the download / install can be done in 10 minutes, but it is a
relatively painless process.
On the other hand, if I go to PHP.com (oops, I mean PHP.net ) I click
the download link in the nav bar it gives me 6 options for Windows
Binaries, I have 6 options of 5.2.8 for Windows. I have no idea which
one is the I need; but none of them are labeled WAMP installer.
What would make me, as a PHP newbie, go looking for an installer from a
3rd party? What if I don't want to install Apache or MySQL?
Amy wrote:
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeffry Houser <j...@...> wrote:
I prefer CF because it is what I know. Since it comes from Adobe
it's
integration w/ Flex is top notch.
After 2 days of trying, I gave up trying to get PHP to work on my
dev
machine; so I'm amused by the claim it can be setup w/ minimal fuss.
I wonder how 10 minutes to find and install WAMP stacks up against the
time to order Coldfusion, get it, and install it...?
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