cf for shopping cart ?

[frankhdata]

Hi

Are they using cold fusion to make this site.

http://www.shopdi.com/category.cfm?...=Amethyst&dept=3&dept_name=Earrings&sub_dept=

What program is the easiest and the best for making such a site

 

[TamedTech]

Aaah .... another lump of fresh meat for the grinder eh?

Yes buddy, ColdFusion was used to build this site, and THIS site

My personal oppinion on CF is that it is the eaisiet to develope in, If you're new to web development then its going to be quite a steep learning curve, but you will be learning a very valuable trade.

As a quick example to whether CF is for you, check out this, even with no programming experience you'll be able to see the clear difference, basicly both of these code snippets achieve the same thing, they take a record from a database and then display it on the page.

Here is the ColdFusion Version

<cfquery name="Company" datasource="yourDB">
      select VendorID, Vendor
      from tblVendor
      order by Vendor
</cfquery>

<cfoutput query="Company">
        #Vendor#, #VendorID#<br>
</cfoutput>

Here is the ASP version of the exact same task

<%
Option Explicit
Response.Expires = 0
Dim objConn, objRS, strQ
Dim strConnection 14:
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
strConnection = "Data Source=somedatasource;"
objConn.Open strConnection
Set objRS = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
Set objRS.ActiveConnection = objConn
strQ = "select VendorID, Vendor "
strQ = strQ & "from Vendor "
strQ = strQ & "order by Vendor"
objRS.Open strQ
%>

<%
While Not objRS.EOF
Response.Write objRS("Vendor") & ", "
Response.Write objRS("VendorID") & "<br>"
objRS.MoveNext
Wend
objRS.close
objConn.close
Set objRS = Nothing
Set objConn = Nothing
%>

That is only a slight example, but its quite clear that CF is the easiest type of server side language to learn, and there are all the other benefits of its power and scalability.

The only downside is the cost, hosting providers will charge an extra few pounds a month to host a CF site, but its really worth the extra money.

Hope this helps.

check out

http://www.easycfm.com

for some great tutorials.

Rob

 

[frankhdata]

Hi TamedTech !
Thanks for being helpful.
The difference between asp and cf is miles appart.
I am sure there are all kinds of advantages in using asp.
But think in my case cf will do the job.
Take care.

 

[TamedTech]

To look at they do look very different, and to be honest they can both achieve pretty much the same thing.

It's purely a personal preferance which you work with, i just happen to prefer using CF.

As for benefits of using ASP over CF ... other than saving yourself 5 pounds a month on hosting costs i'm yet to find any.

I'm sure there are some more advance ASP developers that will find a few other reasons.

Rob

 

[imstillatwork]

There is no reason not to learn how web languages work, how they are used, the best ways to use them, and then learn more then one.



Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

 

[frankhdata]

Hi Guys !
Thanks for the links.