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ColdFusion is an application server that allows developers to create dynamic and interactive websites using the ColdFusion Markup Language or CFML. If you have access to a ColdFusion web server, your hosting provider provides ColdFusion access, or you run a ColdFusion application server, then ColdFusion Builder is a useful tool. It provides you with the integrated development environment for creating CFM files quickly and deploying them effectively to your website.
ColdFusion Builder is not a good general-purpose web editor as it requires that you have access to a ColdFusion server to work, but if you do, it’s a great way to create your ColdFusion files.
There are several versions of ColdFusion for the server:
The editor is ColdFusion Builder and is an IDE to help you build ColdFusion applications. This is what I am reviewing in this document.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: September 26, 2011.
ColdFusion Builder Latest Review
ColdFusion Builder Version: 2
Score: 135
Percent: 40%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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ColdFusion Builder Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows and Macintosh
Features:
- Text editor
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Search and replace
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Save Adobe AIR files
- Special character tools
- Can edit JavaScript
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Additional CSS assistance
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
- Database connectivity
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Save snippets of code
- Free scripts
- Customizable or extendable
- Free trial
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- CFML specific IDE
What's Missing from ColdFusion Builder
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- XML validator
- Page preview
- Alternate browser or OS preview
- Wireless device preview
- Wireless scripts, functions, or links
- Wireless scripts, functions, or links
- Create mobile web applications
- Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Write XHTML documents
- Edit images
- Connects to graphics software
- Multimedia functions
- Assistance with adding videos to websites
- Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
- Save files as PDF
- Link checker
- Can edit CSS
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- CSS3 media queries tools built-in
- Google sitemaps
- Spell checking
- Writes to blogs
- Free templates
- Form wizard
- Photo gallery builder
- Ecommerce tools
- SEO assistance built-in
- Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
- Version control
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
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Full price: $299.00
Free trial for 30 days.
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