Being unsure of which section to post this in, this section seemed like the best fit.

I've developed all kinds of different applications, web and traditional, but I've never had the need to develop a shopping cart.

I browsed CPAN and did some Google-ing, and I came across Handel and Mango. Mango seems to be a framework built around Handel. Neither of these has seen recent development so I'm loathe to just jump in and start writing code.

If you had 100's of products to sell and you wanted a solution you could customize as needed and have full control over the UI, what would you use? Would you write it from scratch? Use certain modules from CPAN? Handel? Mango? Some PHP(gasp!) framework?

I appreciate any advice based on real-world experiences. Thanks in advance.

In reply to Shopping Cart and CMS by onelesd

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