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By: WarriorLibrarian	Date: 20/10/2004 00:00:00	Points: 125	Status: Answered Quality : Excellent
Greetings -- I work at a small local newspaper that is posted online daily, which anyone could access for free. 7 months ago, the publisher of the paper decided that we should collect aggregate data about our viewers. This snowballed into a total re-design of the site. Originally, the site was built everyday by running the stories through a html exporter which generated each story into a nice, simple .htm page. Now, it is all ColdFusion and loads up far slower and the viewers hate it. Plus, for my collegues and I, who have to post the site, it has become far more difficult. The site now requires registration before viewing the full text of a story. Views can see the "section" (Front, Sports, etc.) without registration. Here's the question; would it have been possible to create a site that required registration before viewing full text, collected simple aggragate data while still using .htm files? As you can tell, I'm wholly unfamiliar with ColdFusion (and pretty much anything other than HTML), so I don't know if I have asked this right. Basically, would it have been possible to require registration to our site's content while not changing anything else? Thanks! WarriorLibrarian
By: daniel_c	Date: 21/10/2004 23:54:00		Type : Answer
would it have been possible to create a site that required registration before viewing full text, collected simple aggragate data while still using .htm files? ---> Yes, it's possible. <html> <head><title>Test</title></head> <body> <form name=form1 action="mailto:daniel@eresources.com?subject=registration" method="post" enctype="text/plain"> Name: <input type=text name=txtName> E-mail: <input type=text name=txtEmail> <input type=submit> </form> </body> </html>

By: VGR	Date: 22/10/2004 00:31:00		Type : Assist
I also think the answer is "yes", and I would probably have recommended PHP for this. The changes could have been 100% unnoticeable by the users (I already ported sites like this)

By: pstavrinides	Date: 22/10/2004 00:50:00		Type : Assist
It's quite simple to do it, especially with a very powerfull language such as ColdFusion, ColdFusion should not have slowed your site, and is ideal for what you want.

By: Odyssey122	Date: 22/10/2004 14:35:00		Type : Assist
You could of done it in ASP, PHP, ASP.NET.. There are tons of sites for just this.. <A HREF="http://www.hotscripts.com">www.hotscripts.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.totalscripts.com">www.totalscripts.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.asp-free.com">www.asp-free.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.w3schools.com">www.w3schools.com</A> You can search each of those sites, for examples scripts. Now take it <A HREF="http://www.w3schools.com">www.w3schools.com</A> is more for learning and research, but it also has example scripts. It's just more into training you, than you ripping off a script like the others. It's however you want to learn, I use them all. CFM is powerful, but I would have to say it's one of the slower languages and I wouldn' suggest it for a high traffic site. Microsoft used it there for a little while and now they are using asp, htm and mspx. Cause it was way to slow to load on their high traffic site. Now the database part may be coldfusion, but my guess it's probably SQL. Hope that helps! CJ

By: Odyssey122	Date: 22/10/2004 14:36:00		Type : Comment
My bad it's <A HREF="http://www.aspfree.com">www.aspfree.com</A> .... CJ

By: sg_310l	Date: 25/10/2004 20:36:00		Type : Assist
You can create secure folders with .htaccess with just using HTML (without using Coldfusion, ASP, etc) So that if users wanted to read the fuill text of a story you would link them to an HTML file inside this secure folder, the user would be prompted with a dialog box for a username and password. This is really the only way without learning a programming language But it is a pain maintaining a userlist with .htaccess I would say learn ASP

By: fmedia	Date: 26/10/2004 17:32:00		Type : Assist
Coldfusion should never have slowed down your site ... if it did, something is wrong and the cause might be in the code quality ( like spaghetty code ) ... As for the performance issue ( coldfusion performance ), that's completly untrue, specially if you use cfmx 6.1, wich is a lot faster than classic asp that's for sure ! ( i currently work with all cfmx, php and asp+, and they act almost equal, but i prefer cfmx in the scalability area ). The best option i guess is to hire or talk to a cf developer and make him search for some kind of botleneck. As sg_310l using .htaccess files can be a real pain in the neck to mantain ... P.S : check also the version of your cf server ! regards, idss

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