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Once in a while you may come across an opportunity to help create and implement an E-Commerce solution using the ColdFusion platform.  When this arises, I highly recommend using CFWebstore.  CFWebstore is not free, but is not really expensive either.  For (I think) $400.00 you can get a license of CFWebstore, which will work on a Windows server, Linux Server, and can use MySQL or MSSQL.

The install is pretty easy and straight forward.  Just download the files put them on your web server, setup a database, run the database scripts, change some settings in the config file and you are off and running.  If you work like most developers then you already should have an approved mock up of what the e-commerce site will look like.   For me the easiest way to implement a design with CFWebstore is to first build-out your approved mock up into valid XHTML.  Now you just have to cut and paste your build-out code into your default_layout file within CFWebstore.  Most code is well commented within files, and gives you a good idea what that code is doing. Continue Reading