>I thing I hate, not about CFWebStore, but about Fusebox, is the URLs that it >forces you to use. Is there no way to hide that complexity and use simple >URLs?
Guess I might as weigh in on this, since it's my product we are discussing! I wasn't a huge Fusebox fan before, but I have to admit, it really has grown on me as I've used it these last couple years. There are some real benefits to using it, particularly for a 3rd-party application like CFWebstore. Not the least of which is using a methodology that is fairly well known and is well worth learning even if you've not used it before. Actually, one of the nicest things about Fusebox is that it hides the complexity of your directory structure. I can break the application structure down into many subdirectories and organize it exactly how I want, and yet the customer never goes past the top directory. That to me is far more useful than worrying about the URL, which few if any regular users would even look at. In some ways, it makes the URL a lot *less* complicated, since they won't ever see a big long file path. It makes doing layouts *far* easier than my older versions, where you had to worry about paths to different files and images if you were down in the subdirectories. Now there *are* ways to use simpler URLs, if that really is of importance to you. I actually include a little "shortcut" page for sending out links to product pages so you don't have to use the longer, more complex FB URL. It takes a link that looks like "go.cfm?id=2" and redirects the user to the cooresponding product page. You could easily recode this to actually include the product page directly and you could do something similar for category and other store pages if desired. But again, I don't know that there's really much benefit to this. -------------------------- Mary Jo Sminkey http://www.cfwebstore.com Author of CFWebstore, ColdFusion E-commerce software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:205708 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
