Magento and Joomla

Written by Mark Clark - Sat May 9, 09:49 am ET

Joomla, being one of the most popular CMS-systems out there, includes an integration with Virtuemart, a popular ecommerce solution. However, what if you want to use Joomla together with Magento? Then MageBridge is the key!

Features

• Product pages and product search
• Catalog categories and layered navigation
• Shopping cart and checkout
• Latest products, cross-selling, up-selling, related products
• Tags, compare products, etcetera
• Cross-site authentication (Single Sign-In, Single Sign-On)
• User synchronization
• Makes use of the official Magento and Joomla! framework classes
• Reuse the Magento theme within Joomla! or write your own
• Allows for Joomla! and Magento to be installed on seperate webservers
• XML-RPC class for 3rd party integration

MageBridge vs JFusion Bridge

MageBridge goes much further than the JFusion bridge – JFusion only offers user-synchronization, but MageBridge also brings content-synchronization. There are also some other bridge-solutions between Magento and third party CMS-es like WordPress or Typo3, but none of them is as flexible as the MageBridge solution. MageBridge doesn’t involve database-hacks or code-hacks, it offers a clean solution based upon the Magento API and its own API.

From the Authors

At Mage::Camp 2009 Jisse Reitsma from Jira ICT talked about their upcoming release of MageBridge, a bridge between Joomla! and Magento.

MageBridge adds a bridge between Joomla! 1.5 and the Magento e-commerce platform. It allows for displaying Magento content within the Joomla! component-area but also ships with Joomla! modules and Joomla! plugins.

The bridge uses two types of extensions: On the Joomla!-side a backend component allows you to configure the bridge, while a frontend component shows the Magento content inside the Joomla! component-area. Joomla! modules are used to show the Magento shopping cart somewhere within your Joomla! template. Also plugins are available to allow for further integration (search the catalog, user synchronization).

On the other side there is a Magento module which is called through webservices. This not only allows for flexible development, but also to have Joomla! and Magento installed on seperate servers.

Licensing

MageBridge will be released under the Open Software License. It will be available only for subscribed users at a pricing scheme – yet to be revealed.

We’ll keep you updated on the ongoing development-process of the exciting MageBridge.

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