Creating a Shop Using CI - Question

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hey,

I have a client wanting me to implement a shopping cart to a website I am developing for him. Is it worth building from scratch using CI's Shopping Cart library (http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui.../cart.html) or would you recommend using something like 'Community Cart' or 'Kaimono Kago v1.1a Beta'?

I have followed through the nettut's tutorial on building a shopping cart using http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/co...ping-cart/ and read other documentation, although I'm just wondering from experience, what you would recommend.

Cheers.

[eluser]K-Fella[/eluser]
Why reinvent the wheel. Look at some of the carts out there and see if they fit your needs. If they don't then code it yourself.

[eluser]K-Fella[/eluser]
By the way Magento seems to be very popular these days: http://www.magentocommerce.com/

[eluser]Stuey[/eluser]
As you have a client I would lean toward implementing an existing solution rather than code your own as they will want to see some results quicker (it will take ages to write your own I would think, unless it was quite basic).

Magento also may be a bit too heavy/extreme, depends on the size of the client and what they want.