Building an Ecommerce Store from the Ground Up

For my day job I am writing an ecommerce store from the ground up. the coding is pretty straight forward for the most part but the amount of typing that goes into it, is quite amazing. I keep a task list of everything that needs to be done for it. The task list seems to get bigger and bigger every day. I cannot complain though. When it is done the company will have a solid ecommerce store that can be used for clients. I am so glad I get to do it in Coldfusion / CFML rather than using PHP. The problem I see with most shopping carts you can buy is they cram every feature, tons of different layouts etc into the code to make it work for almost everyone. If you want to make customizations to these stores it is very hard to do. Often times you have to change code in several spots because of the different templates. After I get done we won't have to do that anymore.

The CF shop I work in during the day is not object oriented so I am writing the shopping cart in a procedural manner. When I get done writing it in that fashion I am going to take a few days off and then in my spare time (haha) I am going to create it in an Object Oriented manner. When done it will be cool to see how many lines each of the applications have, as well as doing comparisons.