Morgenhund - 10:46 am on Jun 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

IMO the main advantage of coding something from scratch is that you have exactly what you want. But it can take some time, and if you don't have experience you'll definitely overlook something at design stage, that possibly will be hard to add later.

If you don't have previous experience in carts-coding, I'd suggested to find a free cart implementation and start modifying it; after some time you'll have something that may be will not exactly what you want, but at least it will work :) Especially recommended for MSc seekers :)