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rodry has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: (cgi programming)

This is just my opinion.

With the existence of tools like MySQL and DBI for PERL, why should a developer consider a packaged shopping cart software, or subscribe to developing a shopping cart solution without a database back end.

Couldn't one just simply store the product numbers of the items in a cookie file, then when the shopper is ready to check out, load them into the query and execute the purchase?

What do you think?

Originally posted as a Categorized Question.