Shopping Cart Integration

[eluser]ggoforth[/eluser]
[quote author="Lone" date="1200460966"]
The only standout shopping cart to me is [url=http://www.magentocommerce.com"]Magento[/url] - it truly is a masterpeice when it comes to customisation. But it is still in Beta and to be honest I don't see it going final until the end of this year. Also it's setup is very similar to CI, its open source but built by another company.[/quote]

I've had minimal experience with Magento, but I have tried. At a previous company I contracted with, they were trying to use Magento for their shopping cart. I have never had such a hard time figuring out where files were coming from. The code is so cut up and (to my mind anyway) illogically placed, I couldn't figure out how to make the simplest of changes. Neither could anyone there, so we went a different direction. Magento is incredibly feature rich (so I hear) so you may find what you need, but in my experience, it is a bear to work on if you have to make changes to it's core.

Greg