eCommerce Project

[eluser]Jay Turley[/eluser]
I just finished rolling my own ecommerce site too. It's not too difficult.

If you are doing ecommerce for a store which only has a few items, it might even be worth it to use something like paypal's carts, where each item is added as a separate chunk of code on the page, and paypal handles all the cart and payments for you. Not very professional or seamless, but it will work.

The site I just built has CSV import, but I rolled my own here. I just read each line in, validate the contents, and then insert it into the database. In addition, when logged in as admin, every item inthe store displays a bunch of editing options to allow changing of price, description, thumbnail, etc.

I built a business rules engine (essentially) in the Cart controller for calculating shipping. In this case, every store category had different shipping rules and it was a huge pain.

The next time I do an ecommerce site, I may try magento, but then again, I now have a framework to build on, clunky as it may be.