ColdFusion (CFML) is a scripting language developed by Allaire that supports MS Access, dBASE, Paradox and FoxPro databases for developing dynamic websites.

The main purpose of developing coldfusion is to facilitate the easy communication between the frontend and databases

hi,
can u give me any referernce site for the beginers, as well as specifying the limitations of ColdFusion.

I don't know much about ColdFusion myself but I did a little searching and found these sites:

Adobe - Adobe ColdFusion 8 the official coldfusion site.

and

Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Internet: ColdFusion the listings for cold fusion on the Open Directory. This has several links to resources.

Surprisingly w3schools.com (my favourite site for programming help) doesn't seem to have anything on coldfusion.

I am pretty clueless about ColdFusion. I overheard some classes on ColdFusion when I was using the computer lab at my uni and that is about as close to learning about ColdFusion as I have gotten so far.

What I want to know is: why use coldfusion instead of other server side languages like php?

Is there some advantage with coldfusion over an open source solution like php?