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The topic of Magento integration with Joomla! has been discussed extensively on the Magento Forums and the Joomla! community. It appears the first steps of such functionality are beginning to take shape.

In a recent forum thread, Magento community member, bigodines, posted a link to a Magento and Joomla! user integration plugin (via JFusion). If you are a Joomla! junkie and would like to contribute, please give this plugin a try. Feedback is requested by the developer, so feel free to share your findings.

We are excited to see such efforts taking place and would love to see Magento and Joomla! integrated smile

]]> News 2008-02-25T04:16:00-08:00 Comment by TomC {url_as_title} Well, now you know.  cool smirk

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by dax702 {url_as_title} I didn’t get that from what you wrote

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by TomC {url_as_title} I was actually saying that one SHOULD move forward with Joomla 1.5.  smirk

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by dax702 {url_as_title} While I still think the integration should include 1.0.x, I have since made the decision to move forward with 1.5.  There are good photo gallery and guestbook components available and there’s new 1.5 stuff coming out every day it seems. I was a bit apprehensive about moving to 1.5 but it’s really not as bad as I thought it would be.  So Tom, definitely give a 2nd look at 1.5 and the extensions now available for it (if the lack of extensions were prohibiting you from making the move that is)

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by TomC {url_as_title} Whether one has “interest” or not, the fact of the matter is that time and technology moves forward - not backward.  Therefore, any integration effort between Magento and Joomla should include such for Joomla 1.0.x AND Joomla 1.5.x.

I truly hope that such an integration is seriously in the works - as such would open the flood gates for additional Magento users all over the world.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by dax702 {url_as_title} I’d LOVE to see (and would donate for) an integration (installable component) with Joomla 1.0 as I have no current interest in moving to Joomla 1.5…

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} @David Toshack - Sounds interesting. Send the forces along - I’d love to have a chat.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by David Toshack {url_as_title} I’m not sure how familiar you guys are with the Zen-Classes failed project, but before Magento came to be there was a big hole in the open source shopping cart world. The most popular solutions arguably being osCommerce and its fork, Zen-Cart.

Both systems have a huge thriving community, and thanks to them they have become quite stable, reliable and flexible systems with an enormous amount of add ons for all sorts of things.

Some time ago a bunch of CMS developers from a huge range of CMS systems had the idea of moving a lot of the core functionality of Zen-Cart to libraries that other CMS’ could simply interface with so that all participating CMS’ could reek the benefits of such a robust shopping cart system.

The reason why this project was put on ice is because Zen-Cart and osCommerce are built on very poor architecture and moving the core functionality into libraries was simply too much work.

Magento on the other hand is built very well from the ground up and would make a great replacement for Zen-Cart in the previous equation. Looking at the code, Magento seems to be well on the way to achieving this level of flexibility already.

@Rubin: So what I’m wondering is, would you guys at Magento be interested in working with such a team? I’d be happy to let the usual suspects from each CMS know about this thread to see if the interest is still there.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} @activebiz - We’ve seen a huge demand for Typo3 integration (specifically from the European community). I would expect such an integration to be available rather quickly via the community.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by activebiz {url_as_title} regarding TYPO3 -
yes the european languages are well represented and the online community is huge.
USA - still a major lack of participants really.
I am building currently a massive typo3 [multiple sites/37 in all] and can only say, that image galleries and e-commerce in typo3 definitely could use a major boost.

I like Magento and have been following the progress over the last few months. And finally made my decision which cms to use for clients of mine: well, it’s Magento.
And since I have to learn how to customize everything, it would absolutely be great if at some point there is a typo3 integration.

Just my 2 cents worth.....

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} @ORZ - see my comment above smile

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by ORZ {url_as_title} Roy what about DLE(Datalife engine from the SoftNews Media Group (http://dle-news.ru/)
Any plans on working with this great CMS?

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by diri {url_as_title} I’m working on integration of Joomla! with CRMs (SugarCRM, vtiger, ...), OTRS for ticket request system and shopping software (Zen Cart, osCommerce, ...). I do this without JFusion. I also develop interfaces like import / export functions i.e. from / to mobile.de, autoscout24.de and the like. Code will be published as soon as my customers confirm it being working correct for some time. It’s intern, kind of “pre-alpha” at the moment. SOAP and RPC are a must even when it must be implemented for some products to work with another one.

When there is a fixed set of documented features of Magento I can implement interfaces for Magento as well.

I tried it with last two released betas of Magento and encountered serious problems with Magento:

No feature list with technical background available, no access to trunk to have most recent code to test own development according Magento’s development, no fixed behaviour of Magento.

I have to wait until there is a release to support Magento as well for this. Sorry.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} I want to highlight that the Joomla / Magento integration is a community effort started by a community member. We’d love to see additional efforts by the community to integrate Magento with the applications mentioned above.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by alex.fernandez {url_as_title} Is there any plan for a CRM/ERP integreation ? like vTiger, shugar ou dolibarr ?

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by suff {url_as_title} What about WordPress integration? cool smirk

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by erwanpia {url_as_title} my bet would be a SilverStripe integration

http://www.silverstripe.com/

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by Online Shop {url_as_title} i’m a joomla user, integrating magento is indeed a great news!  hope this deal wraps up soon!

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by mikael.hultkvist {url_as_title} An other CMS to keep in mind for future integration is Typolight (has nothing to do with Typo3) which is rising realy fast in popularity and getting great rewievs in Europe.

Heres a link:

http://www.typolight.org

A realy nice lightwieht (hence the name) CMS with an intuitive backend which is a breeze to master even for clients with hardly any computer knowlage.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by bigodines {url_as_title} Hi guys,

I could help you developing this Drupal integration as well… Does anybody here have experience making Drupal extensions?

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by hadi "!MP" farnoud {url_as_title} RoyRubin,
Fantastic! I am Drupal Persian admin too and I strongly recommend Drupal.Great combination

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} Typo3 is important as well. We are hoping an integration with the product materializes soon.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by conticreative {url_as_title} I believe that integration with Joomla would be fantastic, as well as integrating it with other CMS like Drupal and Typo3. Drupal specifically has very little e-commerce integration (I am not sure about Typo3) and a solid e-commerce solution would be very welcome.

From the standpoint of an advanced Joomla integrator, what I’d like to see is tight integration without the usual iframes, inline CSS or javascript that plagues many otherwise nice integrations of third party projects into Joomla.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by montesa {url_as_title} What about TYPO3? TYPO3 is reallly big in Europe, especially the german speaking countries prefer TYPO3.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} We are keeping our eyes on Drupal. We are very optimistic about an integration with Drupal some time in the near future.

]]> 2008-07-08 T;23:22:00-08:00 Comment by TheRec {url_as_title} Nice initiative !
I wish the same would be done with Drupal, is there any project yet ?

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