Yireo – MageBridge for Joomla! A bridge between Joomla! and Magento

Yireo.com International initiative to provide integration between Magento and Joomla! Home to MageBridge, SimpleLists and more .... Memberships for video-tutorials, text-tutorials and code samples Jira ICT Company in the Netherlands focused on Joomla! and Magento Magento Industry Partner Providing trainings, events / bootcamps, extensions, (video)tutorials Me – Jisse Reitsma Co-founder of Jira ICT Writer of Dutch book “Joomla! Templates ontwerpen” Programming Magento, Joomla! and Drupal extensions Yireo, Jira ICT and me

International initiative to provide integration between Magento and Joomla!

Home to MageBridge, SimpleLists and more ....

Memberships for video-tutorials, text-tutorials and code samples

Company in the Netherlands focused on Joomla! and Magento

Magento Industry Partner

Providing trainings, events / bootcamps, extensions, (video)tutorials

Co-founder of Jira ICT

Writer of Dutch book “Joomla! Templates ontwerpen”

Programming Magento, Joomla! and Drupal extensions

Bringing Magento to the Joomla! community Integrate the number 1 e-commerce application into Joomla! Alternative for VirtueMart Bringing Joomla! to the Magento community Giving e-commerce sites a real CMS-alternative Alternative for WordPress / Drupal / typo3 Introducing MageBridge

Integrate the number 1 e-commerce application into Joomla!

Alternative for VirtueMart

Giving e-commerce sites a real CMS-alternative

Alternative for WordPress / Drupal / typo3

Stand alone e-commerce application Developed by Varien Community Edition vs. Enterprise Edition Includes all features of osCommerce and VirtueMart … and more Customizable product features One Page Checkout Google Tools integration (Sitemap, Analytics, Optimizer) iDEAL integration SEO, SEM Multi-lingual, multi-site, multi-currency, multi-everything API for SOAP and XML-RPC Magento e-Commerce

Customizable product features

One Page Checkout

Google Tools integration (Sitemap, Analytics, Optimizer)

iDEAL integration

SEO, SEM

Multi-lingual, multi-site, multi-currency, multi-everything

API for SOAP and XML-RPC

One-man show If Soren dies, VirtueMart dies Code architecture is outdated Ugly mix of PHP-logic and HTML-output VirtueMart makes little use of Joomla! 1.5 Framework features Problems with menu-items, routing, breadcrumbs, etcetera Slow development One-man struggles to keep the software working Magento is just much better All features of VirtueMart are in Magento as well But there are just more and more features in Magento Downsides of VirtueMart

One-man show

If Soren dies, VirtueMart dies

Code architecture is outdated

Ugly mix of PHP-logic and HTML-output

VirtueMart makes little use of Joomla! 1.5 Framework features

Problems with menu-items, routing, breadcrumbs, etcetera

Slow development

One-man struggles to keep the software working

Magento is just much better

All features of VirtueMart are in Magento as well

But there are just more and more features in Magento

Downsides of Magento Good performance requires dedicated hosting, not shared hosting The more features an application has, the more difficult it is to use Theming is only for the experts Direct database interaction is too complicated because of EAV Downsides of the bridge-solution You have to pay to obtain a license The bridge brings also the downsides of Magento to Joomla! Theming of both Joomla! as Magento is required Because the Magento API is not sufficient, it uses its own API Performance is slow, caching is needed but not always possible Downsides of Magento / MageBridge

Good performance requires dedicated hosting, not shared hosting

The more features an application has, the more difficult it is to use

Theming is only for the experts

Direct database interaction is too complicated because of EAV

You have to pay to obtain a license

The bridge brings also the downsides of Magento to Joomla!

Theming of both Joomla! as Magento is required

Because the Magento API is not sufficient, it uses its own API

Performance is slow, caching is needed but not always possible

Features Display Magento content inside the Joomla! CMS User synchronization / authentication / Single Sign On Magento blocks inside Joomla! component / modules Magento events inside Joomla! CMS Joomla! events inside Magento shop Install Joomla! and Magento on the same webserver or seperate webservers One-click upgrades Requirements Joomla! 1.5 / Magento 1.3 Joomla! backend-component checks all requirements Bridge functionality

Display Magento content inside the Joomla! CMS

User synchronization / authentication / Single Sign On

Magento blocks inside Joomla! component / modules

Magento events inside Joomla! CMS

Joomla! events inside Magento shop

Install Joomla! and Magento on the same webserver or seperate webservers

One-click upgrades

Joomla! component Magento content-block within Joomla! component area MageBridge proxy and connection handling Joomla! modules Joomla! menu-items pointing to Joomla! component Magento blocks (example: cart, wishlist, cross-selling) Custom modules using Magento content (example: catalog browser) Joomla! plugins Authentication, user synchronization, Single Sign On Category and product search Related articles and related products Architecture (Joomla!-side)

MageBridge module Acts like a proxy between Joomla! and Magento Joomla! requests a page, the bridge fetches it A bit more complicated than just a IFRAME wrapper Caching; Turn on/off SEF; Single request for multiple blocks; URL rewriting from Magento {{baseurl}} to Joomla! component URL Single Sign On / session tracking; data encryption Architecture (Magento-side)

Caching; Turn on/off SEF; Single request for multiple blocks;

URL rewriting from Magento {{baseurl}} to Joomla! component URL

Single Sign On / session tracking; data encryption

Joomla! - JFusion Magento in Joomla! Only user authentication (and not SSO) Joomla! - J! Mint (Google Summer of Code) Magento in Joomla! Uptill now only a focus on the backend (hmmm) Typogento Magento in Typogento Problems with check-in / check-out WordPress WordPress in Magento Competition

Magento in Joomla!

Only user authentication (and not SSO)

Magento in Joomla!

Uptill now only a focus on the backend (hmmm)

Magento in Typogento

Problems with check-in / check-out

WordPress in Magento

Magento OSL (Open Software License) Possibilities for other licensing schemes Joomla! GPL (GNU General Public License) No options for other licensing schemes MageBridge suite Joomla! extensions: GPL Magento extensions: commercial and EULA Licensing of MageBridge

OSL (Open Software License)

Possibilities for other licensing schemes

GPL (GNU General Public License)

No options for other licensing schemes

Joomla! extensions: GPL

Magento extensions: commercial and EULA

Buy a Magento/Joomla! theme ready-to-go JoomlArt (combined themes) YooThemes, RocketThemes, itemplater (seperate themes) Build your own Full Joomla! theme Stripped Magento theme Theming solutions

Yireo Club Membership On-line education platform Video-tutorials Text-tutorials Tutorials-on-request Expert-discussions Yireo Open Source SimpleLists component Google Optimizer plugin & other plugins Woopra for Magento Upcoming with Yireo

MageBridge for Drupal MageBridge offers a generic API (besides the Magento API) Other clients than Joomla! are possible VirtueMart-to-Magento Exodus Tool Migrate all database records from VirtueMart to Magento Migrate all images from VirtueMart to Magento through AJAX Braindumps of Yireo

Information & pricing http://www.yireo.com/software/magebridge/ Demo http://demo1.magebridge.com/ Blog http://blog.opensourcenetwork.eu/ Company http://www.jira.nl/ More information

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