How are you at structures and arrays? If you can grasp that, a shopping cart actually turns out to be a fairly trivial manner.
I would recommend building it yourself becasue it will be a great learning lesson. You'll understand CF much better. You'll understand application development much better. Also, make sure you understand session variables and/or client variables. Probably you'll want to use session vars, but I use client vars and pass the data structures from page to page via WDDX. Final bit of advice ... think through very carefully everything you want your application to do. While building a shopping cart is not as difficult as it might seem, it is still comlex. You need to anticipate carefully what your customers will want to do and need to do. One of the best ways to learn what the e-commerce experience should be like is to shop at good e-commerce sites like Amazon. Figure out what functionality you like and want to duplicate in CF. Write out a good plan for yourself. Good luck. H. > -----Original Message----- > From: Attley, Simon (CMG-SF) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:38 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Shopping Cart > > Howdy list members, > > I'm trying to build a small site for my girlfriend. She wants to sell > care packages. I'm an intermediate developer but have never built a > shopping cart. We do have a few dollars in the budget, but I would > appreciate list input and or direction to any good books or resources on > shopping carts. I could build it if I had an example to work with, but > need a little direction. I have ColdFusion available and know one thing, > I want to use session variables. > > Thank you in advance, I appreciate any input. > > Simon Attley > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
