Casual Rumblings

http://www.cfshopkart.com/
http://www.cfwebstore.com/
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Just googled, never tried any.

interesting Q, I asked for you here...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/732440/any-good...

CFShopKart... I would NOT recommend it unless you have the patience of a saint, so that you can go through the code and fix the forty-million bugs in it. I have been trying since last October to make this piece of crap work, and it doesn't. I spent a lot of time going through every file (of which there are 2,683 (most of which ARE cfm files) and adding cfqueryparam, as there are none. Then I discovered half of the admin tools don't work. After fixing those problems, I discovered that the item/category assignment system doesn't work either. The admin side uses one method (it writes data to the product table using delimeters in a single column to record multiple assignments), but the front end tries to get the data out of a more proper relational db table. BUT, since the back-end doesn't write to it, it never finds anything.

I have posted repeatedly to their support site, and have gotten almost no help. I got a little from another developer who apparently had some free time on his hands and was feeling helpful. But responses come about once a month.

It's truly a shame that this cart is in such bad shape, as it's full of features. But the author has apparently abandoned it.

I was excited to see your blog post, in the hopes of finding another free (or cheap) CF-based cart... I'll subscribe in the hopes one appears.

@RobG, Sorry you had such a problem with it back in October (CF Shopkart). I'm the developer, and it's been a project of mine for years now (back before CFCs). It might have looked like I abandoned it several months back, but I was busy on other projects. I've since revamped the site and put out updates to address a lot of the bugs. The forum is growing, and I certainly have not abandoned the shopping cart. I have been using it on my own client websites which are starting to multiply. Of course, that's why it is free because it's something I continuously work on.

Rob: You should probably download the latest version because there has been a lot of fixes since October (some of the things you talked about in your post were fixed already). While I can't possibly respond to every post (I try to), I do read them. I am putting out another update this week too to fix a few more things I found out about from my own client feedback and from people posting in the forum (I didn't respond to every single post in there, but I sure did read them). The reason I can't respond to every single post isn't because I don't care: it's because I have people that pay the license fee and they are the first that get support, plus I have my own clients I have to keep up on--I have bills to pay just like everyone else :-).

Visit the forum and let me (and others that visit there regularly) know what problems you are having or have had, and please consider sharing any improvements you have made to the code.

Notice I am responding to this at 1:14 AM EST time U.S....yes, I work very late sometimes just to keep up on things ;-)...I look forward to seeing you on the forums.

CF Shopkart is a free e-commerce solution for Coldfusion developers and online store owners. This Coldfusion shopping cart is absolutely free. This doesn't mean it is poorly made. In fact, I have spent more than 5 years developing it, and working to improve on it. CF Shopkart is perfect for anyone that just needs an affordable solution. You never have to pay a dime for CF Shopkart if you don't want to.