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One of the cooler things about Cold Fusion studio, I am now going to get into all the tool bars and everything, is that not only is it an editor, a Cold Fusion centric text editor, I mean it knows what Cold Fusion tags are, and HTML tags are, and you know it color codes it and if I start typing (you know) CF you get this nifty drop down list. Not only is it cool for that, but it also has some network connection features in here. I or you not only have access to your hard drives, but also when you install it, a thing called FTP and RDS - I am not exactly sure what RDS stands for, but FTP is file transfer protocol, and that will connect you using something like Absolute FTP which is my favorite FTP program, but there is Cute FTP, WSFTP and DOS's own (you know) command line FTP as well as UNIX and (you know) Fetch on the Macintosh. But this is very powerful, because if you setup FTP through Cold Fusion studio, you can edit the documents live right on the server. That's pretty neat, I mean what it really is doing is it's pulling the files up, saving them in memory for you to edit on your screen, and then when you click save, it's actually put, putting them on the server, that FTP server. Because that's how you get files, you get them with a 'get' command if you are going to be doing this on a command line, and then you would put them with a 'put' command and take it from your hard drive and transfer it over there. So that's pretty neat. I don't have access to an RDS server that I could show here, but it works very similar to FTP. RDS has one over FTP, has one as a couple of things over FTP, and that's that you could also connect to databases. So any database pipes that you setup on server that Cold Fusion would have access to, you have access to as well in this same (you know) open/closed fashion with the little plus boxes. I am going to show you what I mean. Let's create a new FTP server. Now later on in this CD, I am going to show off this web site hosting service called cfmresources.com, cfm-resources.com - they are fantastic. And part of this CD I am using Apache web server on my own machine down here. You will notice in some of the movies you will see a little DOS window here, that's the apache server running, and I am doing all of chapter 4 creating the business directory here on this box here, with the Internet not connected through my DSL connection. And in some of the other chapters, I am using TFM resources free web service, where you actually can copy and paste text into a form through what they call their control panel, and then you update the text and it's essentially the same as editing something here, only it's a form out on their web server, on the backend. So you will see that later, but I am going to set up an FTP connection to my new website on their services. If you pay them 20 bucks a year, you can get a domain named website on their services. Temporarily, I have setup something called www.mike.cfm-resources.com, but it could easily be any domain name that I want to purchase. For the purposes of this CD, I am just going to invest 20 bucks and having an FTP connection for some of the chapters. So you will get a feel during the course of this CD of all the many different ways that you can update websites, which is good. I will also demonstrate Absolute FTP in some portions. Anyway, so the description of this is what appears over here, and I am going to call this my CFM resources server, and host name is ftp.mike.cfmresources.com. Now I am not going to show what the username and password are, I am just going to pause the movie, so just imagine now that I type this in and I clicked OK. This CD is going out to thousands of people after all, so hold on a minute and we will be right there. So I've created it, and I think that since it's not showing up, I actually have to like go somewhere else and then come back, and there it is. I press open, now you see the network is going, I am connecting out to the server. And what they give you, on one of their what they call gold websites are the data directory and the web directory. The web directory is where your code goes, and the data directory is where you would put your databases. So I will be copying something into both those places later, but just to show you, I can open up default HTM. And now it's sucking it over here, and I will see it in a second, and here it is. So if I save this, come out here, this is my free page. But now I am going to go to, and it's also, the free server's kind of slow sometimes - I have to say that for the record. Boom. Their gold server is very fast. So that's how you do it, RDS would be very similar, but you would also see databases listed here, not as in file areas but as in the name under here would be the name of the database. You would click plus and all the tables would show up, and then you double click on a table and then over here would appear the actual table data, and you can edit it live. And then you can get into things like query SQL builder and stuff like that. Once you have that open. Having FTP, and especially RDS access to a Cold Fusion server is critical to really taking advantage of the full features of Cold Fusion studio. As a Cold Fusion editor, it's very good but the real power comes in once you have an RDS connection to your server, because you can edit the documents live, you can edit the database live, everything is just totally open up to you. o your server, because you can edit the documents live, you can edit the database live, everything is just totally open up to you.