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Jan

2010

Integrating Magento and Joomla Using MageBridge

Written by Steve Burge

Magento and Joomla We had a great presentation at the Atlanta Joomla Users Group last night. Paul from http://netproffitt.com went over the integration possibilities with Joomla and Magento, a very powerful open source shopping cart.

Suffice it to say that Magento is miles ahead of Virtuemart in at least three areas:

Features
Complexity
Expense

If you're looking for a very simple shopping cart with Joomla, Magento isn't it but RokQuickCart is a good option. Paul's presentation is embedded below.

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Your Comments (13)

David Dawson

January 14, 2010

I had a play with magento at a customers request once
Never again. the styling is a nightmare. If your used to only using joomla then I think you will struggle with magento.

Another problem I had in the end is the update methods that required you to empty your shop and install from scratch everytime there was an update.

Don't know if its like that now as this was over a year ago.

Put me off from using it after that! Long live virtuemart!

steve

January 14, 2010

That was my first reaction also, last night

Magento seemed all kinds of impressive, but all kinds of complex too.

RyanH

January 14, 2010

Just recently I was looking for more info on integrating Joomla and Magento. The timing of this post was perfect. Thanks! I look forward to experimenting with MageBridge in the near future.

Ray Bogman

January 14, 2010

Thanx Paul, nice presentation about MageBridge

For more info on MageBridge for more lover smilies/wink.gif
check out http://www.yireo.com/software/magebridge

Hans Kuijpers

January 14, 2010

I'm using MageBridge to connect Magento with Joomla for the ticketsale of the Dutch Joomladays. When using MageBridge you can stick to your Joomla theming... no struggle with Magento theming.

deadlydave

January 14, 2010

good luck with that smilies/wink.gif

JohnG

January 14, 2010

We've been looking for a reliable cart to use in conjunction with Joomla for some time now.

VIrtueMart and iJoomla DIgistore both had serious issues, so maybe we'll give Magento a shot. Even if it's somewhat complex, if it's reliable and we can count on decent support then it coul dbe the ticket.

Great presentation.

deadlydave

January 14, 2010

Have you not tried virtuemart JohnG?

deadlydave

January 14, 2010

Sorry I misread... Virtuemart, is a good system, you may need to work out a few kinks but I use it on a site that gets a lot of hits... the thing with Vm is that there is soooo many extensions available for it. couple it with CSVI and you have a very powerful system.

Imran Ali

January 17, 2010

Hey Steve
Any specific reasons why JFusion, a definite leader in Magento-Joomla! integration was kept out of the entire test and analysis?

J!Mint was knocked around and its problems have been documented well. Possible sabotage? smilies/tongue.gif

Cheers
Imran

steve

January 17, 2010

Hi Imran. No, I guess the presenter just missed it. I know him well and he has no axe to grind.

We use JFusion here on Alledia and have never had any issues with it.

By the way ... we've opened up our blog and news sections this weekend. You're welcome to post an article or a presentation on JFusion and we'll publish it for you.

aravot

January 17, 2010

Magento is a very powerful shopping cart but is not for beginners, I couldn’t install the current stable version 1.3.2.4, search their forum many users had the same issue but no official respond so I created a new topic I was told by a user to get a proper hosting, I am with dreamhost and have had no problem installing other shopping carts, tried the new 1.4 RC version was able to install it but found every change requires code tweaking example I wanted to remove compare and wish list options but found no enable/disable option had to remove it from the code, Magento Enterprise looks good but $8000 is too much for me.
Instead try Prestashop, easy to use (Joomla like publish/unpublish options) and powerful too and I read someone is working on a Presta + Joomla bridge.
However don’t give up on VirtueMart, 2010 will be our year http://www.alledia.com/blog/e-...rs-needed/

deadlydave

January 22, 2010

@ aravot : nice to see you on here, I'm so happy to see virtuemart finally developing more, wish i was technically minded enough to be able to offer help with the project.

@steve : One thing I have noticed with the jfusion mod on alledia is that when there is a forum post and it emails me, the link always takes me to the front page. it should take you to the post... tell you to login and then redirect to the post you were viewing. Minor bug I spose but its still annoying!