Constructing a Catalog
Although the administration section was created using basic form techniques, the catalog section gets a little more complex. It needs to accomplish two tasks: It must display products to the user and save "ordered" items in a shopping cart so they can later be totaled when the user checks out.
Creating a Display Page for Your Products
Start by creating a page that will display all movies in the database. I used a pretty simple one, as shown in Figure 20.4.
Figure 20.4. Displaying products in the catalog.
The code for Figure 20.4 is pretty straightforward by using the <CFOUTPUT> tag. It simply displays some of the data for ...
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