What are .cfm files?

Question

What are .cfm files?

Answer 1

.cfm stands for coldfusion markup language file. You can use dreamweaver software to do the programming.



It is like programmig language like php, asp, java, jsp..for web content.



It is very rich and more flexible. But to runn it you need web server as well as cold fusion server.



For more infor goto adobe.com (Adobe bought over)

Answer 2

CFM files are created using ColdFusion.

Answer 3

They are ColdFusion files. They are not converted to HTML by the browser. What happens is on the webserver, such as IIS which is Microsofts webserver, it gets a request from your browser and sees that it is a .cfm page. It doesn't know how to process this so it passes it on to ColdFusion software on the server to handle. This does all the processing of the file then sends back the HTML to the webserver to pass back to your browser. Your browser wouldn't be able to handle a source document that was a ColdFusion document as it doesn't know what the tags are in there. It only knows how to display the HTML resulting code after processing by the server.



hope this helps