Yireo Mage Bridge - Joomla!Days NL 2009 #jd09nl

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

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

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

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Code architecture is outdated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

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

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

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)

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
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

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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