Magento / Drupal Integration Project
As part of Google Summer of Code ‘08, a Magento / Drupal integration project is getting off the ground. A detailed proposal has been posted on the Groups.Drupal site, and the abstract is included below:
Magento has just released production ready version 1.0 and has comprehensive support ecosystem for its users. Current existing ecommerce modules for Drupal either do not have production ready release or do not support Drupal 6. Hence, integration between Drupal and Magento will be the powerful combination and will drive embracing of Drupal 6 even more.
This project aims to tightly integrate Magento into Drupal by coming up with a Magento module and a few essential native Magento blocks. The integration is elaborate upto the level of rendering Magento as a Drupal page.
There has been a lot of interest by the Magento and Drupal communities for such an integration to take place. This is certainly going to be picking up a lot of steam in the weeks ahead.
1TheRec from Lausanne, Switzerland|posted April 6 2008
Woooooooooow
That sounds promising, combine the two best pieces of open source web software (that’s just my opinion) can’t end up bad :D Only one darker note, the “E-Commerce” module of Drupal will unfortunately not survive to the killer app, aka Magento…
2srinigenie |posted April 6 2008
Lovely!!! Just the other I got to know of Google Summer of Code and thought of asking Magento to be part of it and now it is already!!!
3Buddha993 |posted April 6 2008
cool. hope there will come something similar for joomla. now you just have to make magento faster. otherwise it would make no sence to build a bridge aka use magento in a productive way.
4Sudheer |posted April 6 2008
The integration project will have me sniff around Magento the source code.
I am Drupal consultant. I will look forward to use Magento in the future.
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5Crucial from Scottsdale, AZ|posted April 6 2008
Awesome! Hopefully this will lead the way to other integrations. I’d much rather see an ExpressionEngine integration, but I imagine it will be MUCH easier when EE 2.0 comes out since it will be fully “code ignited”
6winans_fred from Easthampton, MA|posted April 7 2008
why aren’t people talking more about TypoLight yet? http://www.typolight.org
From a developer’s standpoint and from an overall design and ease-of-use standpoint, it wins hands down!
Yay integration!
7Ross from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK|posted April 8 2008
As a Drupal developer I’m really glad to see that an integration with Magento is getting attention. While there are some very clever people around, I can’t help wondering if the plans aren’t a bit too ambitious?
>> “The integration is elaborate upto the level of rendering Magento as a Drupal page.”
I would have thought that integrating the customer/user logins would be the place to start, not combining 2 templating systems.
8ecommer |posted April 8 2008
Wow this is huge! A dream come true!
9CKD from Saitama, Japan|posted April 10 2008
I am with Ross, I beleive there is a way or module out there in Drupal to use other databases to gain Account information and apply it to Drupal.
Themes can be ported to both to make the two applications have the same feel. Depending on which is more reliant to your site, the Drupal or Magento application, make one more prominent to the users.
Keeps updates simple, bugs easier to find, and future preference changes to either application easier.
But you guys go for it!...good luck.
-CKD
10Ross from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK|posted April 11 2008
Unfortunately this SoC proposal wasn’t accepted:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/9939#comment-34080
I’m sure that something will happen anyway.
11Alexis Bellido |posted May 16 2008
Cool. I’ve been a Drupal developer since 2004 and just starting to work with Magento. It’s great to confirm that my time learning to develop with Magento will be well invested.