Integrating Magento info Joomla!

Joomla! vs MagentoMoogla?

Joomla! vs MagentoMoogla• Joomla! – Most popular open-source CMS – Community-driven – User-friendly; easy architecture• Magento – Most popular open-source e-commerce system – Created by company Varien – Flexible; complicated architecture

Joomla! vs MagentoMagento is hot

Joomla! vs MagentoMagento is hot• Fast growth – Rapid development of new features – Quick adaption of market (because there is no good alternative?) – Buzz

Joomla! vs MagentoWhy Magento?• Highly configurable • Numerous payment gateways and other modules • All HTML can be modified• Cool frontend features • Layered Navigation (or “Shop by ...”) • One Page Checkout• Never a need for core-hacks • Parent/child theming • Class overrides • Observable events

Joomla! vs MagentoSerious e-commerce features• Catalog features • Product comparison • Shop by color / manufacturer / price / ... • Reviews, rating, wishlists • Upselling, cross-selling, gift-certificates• Ordering features • Multiple shipping addresses • One Page Checkout • Multicurrency, multicountry, multisite, multistore, multilingual • Online order-reviewing by admins• Backend features • Export / import functionality • APIs for connecting to 3rd party ERP / CRM / bookkeeping

Joomla! vs MagentoMagento is for big shops• Higher costs • Full implementation easily takes 50 hours of an expert • Cheap shared hosting doesnt work • Majority of Magento extensions is commercial• Flexibility in favor of user-friendliness • XML layouts in Magento theming • MVC-usage and observer/observables • Clustering capabilities, advanced caching• Only worth it, if you want to earn money

Joomla! vs MagentoIntegrating Magento and Joomla! (1)• Magento inside Joomla! – JFusion – JMint – MageBridge• Joomla! inside Magento – JFusion (partially) – MageBridge (partially)

Joomla! vs MagentoIntegrating Magento and Joomla! (2)• Common technologies – Integration over HTTP • JFusion: HTML webpage • JMint: HTML webpage / SOAP • MageBridge: JSON-RPC / custom API – Configuration of webservice • API user • API role – Visual integration or not • IFRAME or integrated through API • Magento blocks reused in Joomla! • Other integrations (search, breadcrumbs)

Joomla! vs MagentoSolution 1: No integration

Joomla! vs MagentoNo integration• Keep Joomla! separate from Magento • No performance loss due to bridging • Building a Magento shop is made neither simple or difficult • No extra benefits from integration (because there is none) • Theming used to optimize

Joomla! vs MagentoSolution 2: JFusion

Joomla! vs MagentoWhat is JFusion?• Open-source project• Latest release 1.5.5 (February 2011)• Focussed on user-authentication and user-sync • Magento, phpBB, WordPress, SMF, vBulletin, Moodle, Gallery2

Joomla! vs MagentoJFusion architecture• Parsing of Magento-generated HTML – HTML-blocks are extracted (for instance login-form) – Form is submitted to Magento – No API, no Magento extension• Managing user records – User synchronization (pull from Joomla!) – Single Sign On between applications• Joomla! requires access to Magento filesystem

Joomla! vs MagentoJFusion configuration on multiple levels

Joomla! vs MagentoJFusion packages• Component (1 total) • com_jfusion• Plugins (6 total) • User, Authentication, System Search, Content • Magelib• Modules (13 total) • mod_magecustomblock • mod_mageselectblock • mod_whosonline • mod_login • mod_user_activity

Joomla! vs MagentoMagento inside IFRAME

Joomla! vs MagentoJFusion Magelib plugin• Load Magento classes inside Joomla! code – Initialize Magento application (partially) – Call upon any Magento class within Joomla! extensions • Magento blocks built-in Joomla! • Checkout using Joomla! component • Joomla! plugins reacting on Magento events• Code • Hack of app/Mage.php to prevent redefinition of DS constant • Hack of app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php to add __autoload() conditionally • $plg = new plgSystemMagelib(); $plg->loadAndStartMagentoBootstrap(); $customer = Mage::getModel(customer/customer);

Joomla! vs MagentoSolution 3: JMint

Joomla! vs MagentoWhat is JMint?• Created by Anh Nguyen• Google Summer of Code 2009 Project• Latest version 1.0 in August 2009

Joomla! vs MagentoJMint architecture• Parsing of Magento-generated HTML – HTML-blocks are extracted – Use Firebug to identify DOM ID – URLs are dynamically replaced (Magento-to-Joomla!-URL)• SOAP API – User synchronization (pull from Joomla!)

Joomla! vs MagentoGuru configuration• Modify PHP-code of Joomla! class-file

Joomla! vs MagentoJMint packages• Component • com_jmint• Plugins • JMint User Plugin • JMint Authentication Plugin• Modules • mod_jmint_content • mod_jmint_head• Templates • Magento lookalike

Joomla! vs MagentoComponent: User synchronization

Joomla! vs MagentoModule “mod_jmint_content”• Any HTML-identifier (“CSS selector”) can be used• Built-in caching

Joomla! vs Magento

Joomla! vs MagentoSolution 4: MageBridge

Joomla! vs MagentoWhat is MageBridge?• Created by Yireo• Commercial package, free SVN-access• Latest major version 1.6 in February 2011

Joomla! vs MagentoMageBridge architecture• JSON / JSON-RPC API – All API-requests in one single HTTP-request – HTML-blocks combined with API-data – No usage of stand-alone Magento frontend• Extra features – “Easier” setup and checks – Menu-Items with Lightbox-popups – JCE integration – Template-patches to make Magento / Joomla! combo easier

Joomla! vs MagentoMaeBridge packages• Component (1 total) • com_magebridge• Plugins (10 total) • User, Authentication, System, Content • Search, Magento, MageBridge• Modules (13 total) • mod_magebridge_block • mod_magebridge_menu • mod_magebridge_products• Connectors (29 total) • Specific MageBridge plugins• Templates (1 total) • Magento lookalike

Joomla! vs MagentoFrontend integration

Joomla! vs MagentoCreating Menu-Items

Joomla! vs MagentoMageBridge Magelib plugin• Load Magento classes inside Joomla! code – Initialize Magento application (partially) – Call upon any Magento class within Joomla! extensions • Magento blocks built-in Joomla! • Checkout using Joomla! component • Joomla! plugins reacting on Magento events• Code • No hacks • Works only under Joomla! 1.6 • Autoloading all classes when plugin is activated $customer = Mage::getModel(customer/customer);

Joomla! vs MagentoComparison

Joomla! vs MagentoComparison (1): General JFusion JMint MageBridge Type Free Free Commercial License GPL GPL / OSL GPL / OSL Joomla! 1.5 compatible Yes Yes Yes Joomla! 1.6 compatible Yes No Yes Configuration Backend PHP-class Backend Joomla! ext ension(s) Yes Yes Yes Magent o extension(s) No Yes Yes Ease-of-setup Difficult Xtra difficult Fairly difficult Documentation Yes Yes Yes

Joomla! vs MagentoComparison (2): Users JFusion JMint MageBridge Authentication from J to M Yes Yes Yes Authentication from M to J No (#1) No Yes User synchronization Yes (auto) Yes (manually) Yes Usergroup synchronization No Yes Yes (partially) Single Sign In (integrated) Yes Yes Yes Single Sign On (separate apps) Yes No Yes Password synchronization Yes No Yes Shadow Joomla! users (#2) Yes (optionally) No Yes (optionally) #1: JFusion assumes integration of Magento into Joomla! (to my knowledge) #2: In other words: Users with an empty password, that require remote authentication

Joomla! vs MagentoComparison (3): Visual integration JFusion JMint MageBridge Visual integration IFRAME (#1) Int egrated Int egrated Magent o blocks Yes Yes Yes Search plugin Yes No Yes Menu-Items No No Yes Breadcrumbs No No Yes Extra modules (cart, product s) No No Yes Hacks in Joomla! core No Yes (#2) No #1: JFusion 2.0 will introduce “Frameless Integration” of Magento #2: This could have been done through a simple System Plugin instead

Joomla! vs MagentoComparison (4): Advanced JFusion JMint MageBridge Output caching No Yes Yes Database integration Yes (partially) No No Support for multisite Yes No Yes Backend int egration No Yes Yes Full Magent o bootstrap Yes Yes No HTTP requests Multiple Single Single Install in same directory Yes No No

Joomla! vs MagentoComparison (5): Extras JFusion JMint MageBridge JCE integration No No Yes Multilingual int egration Yes (#1) No Yes (#2) Magent o code inside Joomla! Yes (#3) No Yes (#4) Joomla! after-sales actions No No Yes ACLs to apply private sales No No Yes #1: JoomFish #2: JoomFish, Nooku Content, m17n #3: Requires some small core-hacks inside Magento code #4: Only works with Joomla! 1.6

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