I personally consider this a total NON-PRIORITY!
IMHO Magento should do what it’s designed to do - run a shop. Period.
I’d say it’s the CMS developers responsibility to connect the two if they really want to.
There’s a reason why VirtueMart has hundreds of thousands of downloads and users - it’s because they were smart enough to develop their os ecommerce product to integrate with one of the most popular CMS systems on the planet - Joomla. It’s about VISION . . . It’s about MARKETING . . . It’s about EXPANSIVE VERSATILITY.
Joomla and WordPress have been around a long time - they don’t need Magento to maintain/increase their exposure and user base. The opposite is true for Magento - new on the scene, looking to make it’s presence known to the open source community. What better way to do so than to be compatible with two of the os mainstays?
IMHO Magento should do what it’s designed to do - run a shop. Period.
I agree 100% with this. Magento is an ecommerce application. It’s meant for running an online store, not for integrating with forums, shoutboxes, blogs, video galleries, etc.
We’re going to be working on integrating with Drupal, though mainly so that users don’t have to login twice. That’s the main thing for us and our clients.
I agree that full integration isn’t necessary for any of the products listed, though it would be good to have some guidance on editing the customer / member types.
IMHO Magento should do what it’s designed to do - run a shop. Period.
I agree 100% with this. Magento is an ecommerce application. It’s meant for running an online store, not for integrating with forums, shoutboxes, blogs, video galleries, etc.
The PRESENT and FUTURE for commerce on the internet is interactivity for users/customers (i.e. Web 2.0 and beyond).
Most of the major retailers understand this - hence the increasing utilization of blogs, forums, social networking, etc.
well, more than an integration if the development teamb create a bridge for users/customers login
is good enought,
a big plus will be if the developers find a way to convert/use the joomla templates , that will boost magento implementation since it will let the magento fans to use hundreds of existing templates and access to a bunch of joomla template designers
a big plus will be if the developers find a way to convert/use the joomla templates , that will boost magento implementation since it will let the magento fans to use hundreds of existing templates and access to a bunch of joomla template designers
FIY there are million of developers, web designers who don’t use Joomla by choice, and don’t care about having a free or paid template made by Joomla or other CMS template designers.
It’s amusing to see ‘xyz cms’ user’ pushing his own agenda in the name of best interest for Magento and for the benefit of others. Thank you but thank you, we don’t need that, we already know what is best for us and quite certain Varien knows what is best for Magento’s market share without any of us telling them.
This is just a forum, a place to present opinions and ideas. Everybody can just take an inspiration from here and there is not any way to push someone to do something. If this thread is made by people interested in CMS integration, that’s just it’s purpose to interconnect. Though I see the topic has a spirit of pressure, let’s just talk the ideas of integration.
As I mentioned earlier, there is JFusion project that has the ambition to integrate Joomla with various other softwares including Magento. Marius, the JFusion developer recently posted an answer on how the Magento/Joomla works are moving along:
“Only the phpBB3 JFusion plugin has the capability of being a JFusion slave at the moment. The other plugins (including magento) do not have the updateUser() function that allows JFusion to create/update a magento user. I would certainly appreciate the help of the community for creating these functions. That is why I added the developers manual on my todo-list for the next couple of days, as this guide would open up development to other developers.”
It’s amusing to see ‘xyz cms’ user’ pushing his own agenda in the name of best interest for Magento and for the benefit of others. Thank you but thank you, we don’t need that, we already know what is best for us
Those of “us” that would rather the Magento team not expend any resources on integrating Magento with anything.
There’s already a new addon available to hook Wordpress to Magento (developed completely independent of Varien). Joomla and the others can’t be too far behind.
It’s amusing to see ‘xyz cms’ user’ pushing his own agenda in the name of best interest for Magento and for the benefit of others. Thank you but thank you, we don’t need that, we already know what is best for us
Who is this “us” you speak of ??
is with the community feedback that an open source project grows and succed
trolling forum members giving its persona opinions is not polite or right at all
every human have it’s own agenda (more talking about of ecommerce) there is nothing wrong with that????
this is the way that is supposed to be
and you are wrong nobody nobody knows everything about what is best for “us”
I think that is from the ideas, opinions and critics from the users that the developers build the blue print of magento
This is just a forum, a place to present opinions and ideas. Everybody can just take an inspiration from here and there is not any way to push someone to do something. If this thread is made by people interested in CMS integration, that’s just it’s purpose to interconnect. Though I see the topic has a spirit of pressure, let’s just talk the ideas of integration.
100% agree with you,
I support the idea in joomlafusion.org they point to http://www.chipin.com/ the developers can put donationware development cost
and once they get it, they release the integration in open source license , in that way the millions of developers / users that don’t use joomla by choice don’t have to complain about other users personal agendas…
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I support the idea in joomlafusion.org they point to http://www.chipin.com/ the developers can put donationware development cost
and once they get it, they release the integration in open source license , in that way the millions of developers / users that don’t use joomla by choice don’t have to complain about other users personal agendas…
Just to be clear - this is not a “personal agenda” issue. If it were, I wouldn’t have included other CMS in the original post / poll. It’s a matter of expanding Magento’s market share and awareness within the open-source community - hundreds of thousands of whom use (among others) the three major CMS systems I listed).
Obviously, I am not alone in my thoughts and reasoning.
Nevertheless, I too am anxiously awaiting the JFusion user integration project for (in my case) Joomla.
Hope they are able to work it out soon.
