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Use CData JDBC drivers to import and use WooCommerce data in ColdFusion.
Adobe ColdFusion is a web and mobile application development platform. It uses its own scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), to create data-driven websites as well as generate remote services, such as REST.
When ColdFusion is paired with the CData JDBC Driver for WooCommerce, you can link your ColdFusion web and mobile applications to operational WooCommerce data. This allows for your applications to be more robust and complete. This article details how to use the JDBC driver to create a table populated with WooCommerce data from within a ColdFusion markup file.
With built-in optimized data processing, the CData JDBC Driver offers unmatched performance for interacting with live WooCommerce data. When you issue complex SQL queries to WooCommerce, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to WooCommerce and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations). Its built-in dynamic metadata querying allows you to work with and analyze WooCommerce data using native data types.
Configuring the Connection to WooCommerce
You will need a JDBC connection string to establish a connection between Coldfusion and WooCommerce.
WooCommerce supports the following authentication methods: one-legged OAuth1.0 Authentication and standard OAuth2.0 Authentication.
Connecting using one-legged OAuth 1.0 Authentication
Specify the following properties (NOTE: the below credentials are generated from WooCommerce settings page and should not be confused with the credentials generated by using WordPress OAuth2.0 plugin):
- ConsumerKey
- ConsumerSecret
Connecting using WordPress OAuth 2.0 Authentication
Adding a Data Source and Creating a Table
After configuring the connection, follow the steps below to add the CData JDBC Driver to ColdFusion's lib directory, add a new data source, test the connection, create a ColdFusion markup file, and, finally, make a real-time connection with WooCommerce data and display it in a table written in the ColdFusion Markup Language, or CFML:
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Copy the JDBC Driver for WooCommerce and lic file from "C:\Program Files\CData[product_name]\lib" to
"C:\ColdFusion2021\cfusion\wwwroot\WEB-INF\lib".
cdata.jdbc.woocommerce.jar cdata.jdbc.woocommerce.lic
Note: If you do not copy the .lic file with the jar, you will see a licensing error that indicates you do not have a valid license installed. This is true for both the trial and full versions.
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From the ColdFusion administrator interface, choose Data & Services.
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Here, we can "Add New Data Source". The data source name can be any name, provided it conforms to the ColdFusion
variable naming conventions. For our JDBC driver, choose "other", then click the "Add" button.
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Next, populate the driver properties.
- JDBC URL will need to be in the format: jdbc:woocommerce:|connectionString|.
- A typical connection string looks like this:
jdbc:woocommerce:Url=https://example.com/; ConsumerKey=ck_ec52c76185c088ecaa3145287c8acba55a6f59ad; ConsumerSecret=cs_9fde14bf57126156701a7563fc87575713c355e5; InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
- The Driver Class is: cdata.jdbc.woocommerce.WooCommerceDriver
- The Driver Name is arbitrary and simply used to recognize the data source in the ColdFusion administration console.
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Now, test the connection by clicking the check mark to the left of the CDataWooCommerceJDBC data source you just created.
When the data source reports an "OK" status, it is ready for use.
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Next, create a new ColdFusion Markup file (.cfm) and place it in the wwwroot directory ("C:\ColdFusion2021\cfusion\wwwroot")
for ColdFusion.
The following code queries the data source:
<cfquery name="WooCommerceQuery" dataSource="CDataWooCommerceJDBC"> SELECT * FROM Orders </cfquery>
And a CFTable can be used to quickly output the table in HTML:<cftable query = "WooCommerceQuery" border = "1" colHeaders colSpacing = "2" headerLines = "2" HTMLTable maxRows = "500" startRow = "1"> <cfcol header="<b>ParentId</b>" align="Left" width=2 text="ParentId"/> <cfcol header="<b>Total</b>" align="Left" width=15 text="Total"/> ... </cftable>
Full code, including the HTML portion is available below:<html> <head><title>CData Software | WooCommerce Orders Table Demo </title></head> <body> <cfoutput>#ucase("WooCommerce Orders Table Demo")#</cfoutput> <cfquery name="WooCommerceQuery" dataSource="CDataWooCommerceJDBC"> SELECT * FROM Orders </cfquery> <cftable query = "WooCommerceQuery" border = "1" colHeaders colSpacing = "2" headerLines = "2" HTMLTable maxRows = "500" startRow = "1"> <cfcol header="<b>ParentId</b>" align="Left" width=2 text="ParentId"/> <cfcol header="<b>Total</b>" align="Left" width=15 text="Total"/> ... </cftable> </body> </html>
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Finally, run the code locally in a browser at the default port of 8500. It produces a table populated with WooCommerce data!
As a note, the CData JDBC Drivers also support parameterized queries using the cfqueryparam element.
For example:
SELECT * FROM Account WHERE name =
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