Coldfusion and FrontPage...

[jean1100]

I'm a newbie - so please be patient with me... :confused:

I have a question for the coldfusion gu-rus of the world...I'm currently still a student working on my BSIT...I have only classes and book knowledge of coldfusion...and I'm doing my first bit of contract work for a new business. They requested that I design a web page in their FrontPage software to look exactly like their brochure...(upon the suggestion of their -then- contracted database administrator.... He's since left them high and dry...).

One of the requirements of this web site is 24/7 database access for information retrieval....I told them I would do the "client side" portion and I recommended a more experienced db server-side programmer for the rest of the work (I wasn't qualified to do it....)

The company has since switched servers and has a different database administrator now. She is using Coldfusion on the server-side and we are having some problems "calling" frontpage files (secure-server is involved) to the coldfusion side.... specifically images (button)....within stationary frames...(like a vertical link bar on the left side of the home page...

any suggestions? any hope? can you help me? or refer me to another site.... :o

[dazzlindonna]

Can you be a little more specific? Are you calling templates, or just images? The images are stored on a secure server, or what exactly is the role of the secure server in the process? When you use the word "frames", do you really mean frames - as in a frame-based site, or are u using the word loosely to imply something else? Are you calling the files and/or images via <cfinclude>?

[bustersmom]

I am the database admin working on the Cold Fusion side of this site. What we have is a Front Page site that uses frames (not the general term, but actual frames) that also needs to process database transactions under secure server. The Cold Fusion pages need to be invoked by the Front Page site, but these pages will NOT use any Front Page bots. They are written using Cold Fusion tags, some javascript, and HTML. Ideally, we would like to have the CF pages come up in the main frame of the site. This frame would be under Secure Server if that's possible. Will mixing CF and Front Page work here?

[dazzlindonna]

I've never tried that combination of things before. What happens when you attempt it? Do you get any specific error message?

[bustersmom]

We have tried it, and the page does indeed come up in the frame and is invoked using SSL, however, the key does not appear at the bottom of the browser because the main page (the one with the frameset) is not under SSL. I am thinking that we need to build a separate set of pages for the Cold Fusion/SSL processes that mimic the frames, but do not use frames at all. We just need to make sure that the FrontPage link to these pages replace the entire framed page setup with the CF page. I am not planning to open any of the Cold Fusion pages in FrontPage so that FP cannot jumble my code. Will having FP link to an non-FrontPage page cause any other anomalies in the web site navigation or operation? Will just having cfm documents residing on the site directory cause any FP problems?

[Cyber-SEO]

Here is where you are confusing everyone. There is no FrontPage pages. I mean FrontPage is an application that you use to develope, well actually lol it's used to screw up your code ;).

Anyway. What you need to do is take all that out of frames and place it all into one page called lets say ammmm index.cfm then within this page you need to setup page actions which will prompt the system to do certain things.

This is not a very easy task, it should be done by a developer.

My 2 cents.

[bustersmom]

When I say FrontPage pages I am referring to pages that invoke the FrontPage webbots. I have been developing web sites for 10 years now, and I only use FrontPage when I have to take over sites built by someone else who used this product. I have been able to edit pure HTML pages with FP without issue, but I am concerned about mixing pages with FP bots with CF tags. I don't think it can be done. I haven't tried opening pages with CF tags in FrontPage because I just know FP will screw it up.

Anyway, we are experimenting with this approach and will see where it takes us! Thanks for the input!

[gps31]

Couldn't you just use the editing function of FP, and just remove all of the garbage FP code, and replace it with CFML and HTML instead?

Also, make sure the pages all end in .cfm if you're using or calling CF.