Hi folks,
I'm looking for a bit of advice here, and probably someone to whom I
can fire off an email if I run into trouble.
We have a system written in ColdFusion (for anyone who knows Melbourne
IT, I'm talking about our Digital Certificates sales system, not our
Domain Name Registration system, which is already using PHP :)) which
I am trying to drag kicking and screaming into PHP code because we don't
have any CF developers.
The system is currently running using Cold Fusion on *nix (ie, NOT
the Windows NT CF that everyone seems to use), and talks to an Oracle
database.
I'm not sure *how* it's talking to the Oracle database, if it is
talking directly to it, or using unixODBC (which I found references
to in /usr/local/coldfusion). As I don't know the first thing about
Cold Fusion, I am sort of floundering here.
I guess what I need is:
1. How can I tell whether Cold Fusion is using native Oracle calls
or using ODBC to talk to the database?
2. In the CF files, I see reference to variables that I can't see
defined anywhere: "#Application.datasource1#" etc etc. Where can
I find the file that defines these variables?
3. Because other parts of our business rely on the database itself,
I can't reconstruct it in MySQL. I need to replace *just* the
Cold Fusion, and leave the database as-is. I guess this means
I'll need PHP to have either ODBC or Oracle support. Anyone
able to tell me which is easier to get up and running?
Can anyone shed some light on this for me? It would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Jason
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