Magento

Hi

We are just starting a discussion on the German TYPO3 List about integrating / Connecting Magento into TYPO3. Does anyone already started with such a project and how could the Magento help us to get Magento running Smoothly with TYPO3.

Any help from the Magento Team would be really appreciated. Form more info the Thread on the German List is here:

http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-german/2007-September/039308.html

There are already some TYPO3 Developers would would like to start with and it would be good if there could be some kind of collaboration to get the best shopsystem in the world at the Moment and the best CMS which is used by lots of big Companies and smaller business - especially also in Multidomain Settings - working perfectly together.

Andi

Andi - we are very interested in integrating with TYPO3. Please let us know how we can help.

Same here! I’m a big advocate of TYPO3 and I think thats a great idea.

I’m wondering now if the TYPO3 Commerce extension should make use of _some_ of Magento as “libraries”, rather than recreating the wheel once again.

Actually there is probably work on both sides for this to work really well.
1. Making these separate “Magento libraries” more accessible as separate packages for lots of 3rd party projects and
2. making use of these “libraries” in each individual CMS extension, eg. TYPO3 Commerce extension.

Similar to what was planned with Zen-Cart, which was to be separated with “Zen-Classes” many moons ago.

I haven’t looked too hard at the Magento code but from what I see so far this is already leaps and bounds ahead of what would have been required of Zen-Cart separation given the use of a proper MVC model. It would also be great for Magento, since their libraries would benefit from contributions from the masses of CMS projects out there.

David Toshack informed me about this topic and, as i was in the past, i’m still interested in somesort of library.
I’m not fond off TYPO3, and i hate Joomla so i don’t use them, but that’s not the point.

In the past many developers tried to get Zen Cart to become a library so that it could get integrated with many projects.
David and I were part of that team, and i still see big opportunities.

IMHO a full blown strict MVC would not be the solution in PHP since it eats resources and distracts the bigger companies.
Keep it plain and simple with classes, then we can decide the type of output.

Benefits to Magento is a bigger active community that can deal and discuss database and source normalization.

Why do all current shops look the same? It’s not because all of them are based on osCommerce. It is the lack therefore.
Theming is a PITA!

When the code is split in classes and separate output it also allows shop owners to distinguish themselves from the default templates.

Is this still a project?, I would be very intersected to integrate the best web shop (Magento) with the best CMS (Typo3) out there!

//edit: I found this Blog so I guess Varien is busy with this?
http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/typo3-magento-integration-project-at-the-forge/

There’s something going on:

http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-magento

However, I don’t know how far they are
Regards Rolf

Oh man… this would be the best!  Typo3 could really use an active development store like this.  PLUS Magento could really use a full-featured CMS like Typo3.  The question is… how integrated will it really be.  If it is done well, it would be used by pretty much everyone.