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jesirose: Not familiar with that term- I'm old enough to be your grandfather- probably why. I didn't post to this forum to discuss (or argue) the merits of PHP vs. CF- just for some advice. BTW just because a dynamic Web development platform costs money doesn't mean it's bad. But again, thanks for your feedback.

Hmm- WTF? ColdFusion is a laughing matter? Not hardly- 1) PHP is most likely to be found in use on Adult (14.75%) , Business (14.75%) or Technology (11%) type websites. 2) Adobe ColdFusion is most likely to be found in use on Business (21%), Shopping (20%) or Travel (13%) type websites. I don't host "Adult" Websites- and I'm certainly not a "ColdFusion God" .... But, thanks for your opinion.

Thanks for everyone's help. Re: Learning PHP. I will be 62 this year- this is the first time I was backed into a corner, i.e. could not convince a client to let me host their site ( I host about 75 now) but needed a dynamic CMS app. IOW I will be retired in a couple of years- I know, old dog-new tricks is not for Web Developers, but I'm so close.....

Do not want to use WordPress- just a simple form with 2 fields- "Headline" and "Story" - after submitting, the headline will display on the headline page: <a href="storypage.html">Headline- see more:</a> Then the story simply displays on the storypage.html with the headline above it- I suppose the submitted data would need to be stored in in a DB- that's how I would handle it with CF. Thanks for your help.

WordPress was developed for Blogs and not entire Websites- Contribute is more robust, has more features, and was originally developed for non-coders to update Websites.

Hello I code by hand (HTML & CF -14 years now), and some of my customers want the ability to do updates to their sites themselves using Adobe Contribute, and I can build any app they need that Contribute can't handle in CF if they host on my server - however, in this particular case, the site is hosted by GoDaddy which is no longer supporting CF. The site is PHP-enabled, and the client was using WordPress to update his entire site. Because of the blogging-centric features of Wordpress, a user can enter a "headline" then an associated story (commentary) - publish, and the headline ends up on one page linked to the page where the headline and story live. So, I need a simple form handler written in PHP that allows the client to enter his "headline" (which is a hard-coded link to the "rest of the story" page), the headline showing up above the story content (using a second form field) - not necessarily targeting <a href="#end-up-here"> - just simply land on the page where the content gets dynamically displayed. Thanks in advance for your patience and be kind---- I have never written a line of PHP- just thousands of lines of CF..... Norman

Hello I code by hand (HTML & CF -14 years now), and some of my customers want the ability to do updates to their sites themselves using Adobe Contribute, and I can build any app they need that Contribute can't handle in CF if they host on my server - however, in this particular case, the site is hosted by GoDaddy which is no longer supporting CF. The site is PHP-enabled, and the client was using WordPress to update his entire site. Because of the blogging-centric features of Wordpress, a user can enter a "headline" then an associated story (commentary) - publish, and the headline ends up on one page linked to the page where the headline and story live. So, I need a simple form handler written in PHP that allows the client to enter his "headline" (which is a hard-coded link to the "rest of the story" page), the headline showing up above the story content (using a second form field) - not necessarily targeting <a href="#end-up-here"> - just simply land on the page. Thanks in advance for your patience and be kind---- I have never written a line of PHP- just thousands of lines of CF..... Norman