Just a quick little tutorial on how to create display nested categories from a database using recursion and components. This is the simplest way I've found to accomplish recursion in ColdFusion, but feel free to comment if you know a better way.

Before you can use a database in your application, you have to set it up as a datasource. This is a task that tends to confuse many new developers. In this article, we take the mystery out of creating data sources and connecting to databases with ColdFusion.