HOW TO MANAGE PRODUCTS USING THE BACK OFFICE

2simplifi eStore is a large scale e-commerce application that allows users to create products dynamically with NO TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE. The Back Office Administration module lets users or site administrators dynamically create main categories, subcategories and products that will be related to the main categories that they have created.

HOW CFFILE AND CFDIRECTORY ARE USED

When subcategories are created, a directory is simultaneously created on the web server using CFDIRECTORY. Additionally, for every product that you create you are able to upload a regular and enlarged image. If you upload images, the application uses CFFILE to upload the images to the web server. If you do not have an image or and therefore do not upload an image, an alternate image will be assigned. This alternate image is named "default.gif" and is located in the "product-images" directory.

DELETING PRODUCTS & DIRECTORIES

If you need to delete information, you will need to follow the following steps.  Images and directories are deleted using CFFILE and CFDIRECTORY as well.

1. Products must be deleted first.  When you delete products, if there are images on the web server that are associated with that product, those images will be dynamically deleted by using CFFILE and forever lost.

2. SubCategories must be deleted second.  When you delete a subcategory, that directory is dynamically deleted by using CFDIRECTORY.  The directory is deleted from the web server and is forever lost.  If you try to delete a subcategory that still has files or images in the directory, you will receive an ERROR message informing you that ColdFusion did not delete the directory because files still exist in the directory.

3. Finally, delete all main categories.