Joomla CMS with Magento
I have not heard the latest update on the integration of Joomla and Magento. I know it was working for version .7 but did not see anything in the group related to Joomla integration with Magento 1.0
I’m looking to understand the best method for integrating Joomla as a CMS with Magento. I’d like to pose a few questions and thoughts and get the groups idea on what would be considered best practice and the most effective use of Joomla and Magento.
Question 1: In a Joomla Magento Integration do we create a template for each system and use two templates with Magento running ecommerce pages and joomla running content pages? The integration is a user in magento is synced as a user in Joomla as the user moves between both systems it is a seemless experience?
My Thoughts 1: I’m opposed to creating two templates and would rather like to see an integration of cms management rather then user sync. Both of course would be nice.
Question 2: Is it possible to create organized content in Joomla and then have that database content show up as the content for magento pages?
My Thoughts 2: magento has no current structure for grouping content, creating menus, etc. I’d like to think it is possible to develop the content in Joomla and then the pages in magento, rather then have any content, are coded to call the joomla database to retrieve the content and display it.
Question 3: If something like question 2 is possible does it break licensing agreements with either magento or joomla?
My Thoughts: I’m unclear. I’ve tried to understand the license agreements and am not sure if this is allowed based on my reading of various threads on Joomla and Magento forums.
Question 4: Shoebacca mentioned in their interview that they deployed joomla for some CMS features. What type of features did they use? How did they integrate specifically magento and joomla?
I look forward to the discussion
1Nikola Tesla posted Thu, July 10, 2008
The integration as I see it should be done through products too not just users. What I mean; Now that the JFusion is working quite well we should consider to made some “connections” from product tables to Joomla! content. The perfect example is VirtueMart and his productsnapshot plugin. In this way you can integrate a basic product info, plus link to the content. And it works vice versa too. A Joomla! content can be included in, for example: product description. Very useful think if you have a lot of product with the same content. You can write an article with a common content and include it through plugin to the product description ( plugin name: includecontentitem from http://www.kksu.com, read also http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/DirectPHP/402-ReInclude-Content-Item.php#402).
Because of the complexity of Magento products structure it doesn’t seams to be possible to easily integrate Joomla! content in Magento, but there should be some “link” from Magento products to Joomla! content. As it is done with VM’s productsnapshot.
The other welcomed features would be a classical “last product”, “featured articles”, “popular items”, ... But this should be an easy job since there is already a tabel in Magento holding this data. Therefore we are looking for a guy who is able to pull this data from Magento and put this data into Joomla! modus.
As for the common looks ...well this is disputable. A CMS is an cms and ecommerce is well ...ecommerce. I mean, that it’s unpractical to mix a heav
2nCase posted Sat, July 19, 2008
Just throwing in my 2cents - I know you’re looking for beta testers and I’ll be dancing on tables to try a Joomla! 1.5.x --> Magento 1.0 or 1.1 integration.
Personally would rather only use the user system within Magento and use Joomla! as a much needed CMS in place of the “static” Magento page system.
..I do like the way Magento organizes their templates/themes though..
Case