day when I didn't know the book.
It's the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit (5th Edition is the
current one I think) by Ben Forta and Nat Weiss (wih others) published by
Macromedia Press.
There are two books in the series - the CFWACK mentioned above, and the
companion book, Advanced ColdFusion Application Development. Together,
they're about 2500 pages (plus a CD) of pure gold.
They aren't the be-all and end-all of ColdFusion coding but if you've been
through both books, you are pretty self-sufficient for most things. The
writing style is not flowery, written in easy-to-understand English. The
authors don't feel the need (as so many do) to impress the reader with their
command of high-falutin language and its easy to work through. There are
many step-by-step tutorials.
The only warning I'd make is don't read it in bed. If you nod off while
you're reading, you could easily break your nose.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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From: Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 2 August 2004 12:57 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Free Open Source Shopping cart?
Thanks Mike,
What is the exact title of the book CFWACK? :-)
I would love to have a tutorial that uses a shopping cart for the example
app. Then I could sit down and design one to fit the needs of my specific
store. :-)
Thanks,
Kevin
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I have used the one in Ben Forta's book CFWACK several times, and modified
it so much it's ended up as my own cart. And once used one in a book called
ColdFusion MX from Static to Dynamic in 10 steps by Australian Barry Moore.
But by the time I've gone through the steps to use those carts for my
client's specifics, its just as easy to do my own. Once you implement one
or two, the principles of managing state, keeping track of the users as they
move around, closing the order and getting their delivery and billing
details are more or less the same from one shopping cart to the next.
If you've built one, it takes longer the first time but you know more about
the inner workings and its easier the next time around. IF you take
someone else's package, you either have to modify theirs to meet your
specifics, or change your business to match the way the package has been
written. I always think its better to have the shopping cart reflect the
way the business works, rather than change the business to match the way
software works.
I think you're right to want to learn from another shopping cart so you can
write your own from then on. If you haven't got Ben's book already you
can't do worse than have that in your library, for a whole lot of reasons.
Cheers
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