MageBridge developers

MageBridge Developers

MageBridge
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MageBridge

• Developed by Yireo
– MageBridge, Vm2Mage and other
Joomla! & Magento extensions
– Tutorials on Joomla! and Magento

• Integrates Magento into Joomla!
– Better CMS for Magento
– Better e-commerce for Joomla!


Magento e-commerce

• Back office integration
– Import / export (XML, CSV), XML-RPC / SOAP
– CRM, custom ERP systems, transport systems
• Extensibility
– Third party extensions
– Parent/child theming
– Event-system
– Override core-classes
• Performance
– Site Performance Optimization (SPO)
– Clustering


History

• MageBridge 1.0 (june 2009)
– Core functionality, visual integration, JFusion flame
• MageBridge 1.1 (august 2009)
– Multilingual integration, sh404SEF support
• MageBridge 1.2 (november 2009)
– Extra stability, more connectors
• MageBridge 1.3 (january 2010)
– No more sh404SEF, RocketTheme template patches
• MageBridge 1.4 (march 2010)
– JCE editor, user import


Bridge everything (1/3)

• Integrates Magento visually into Joomla!
– Main content-block within Joomla! component
– Any other Magento block within Joomla! modules



• Synchronizes Magento data with Joomla!
– Search products and categories
– User synchronization and authentication
– JCE editor



• Synchronizes Magento data with Joomla!
• Connecting Magento logic to Joomla!
– Product connectors, store connectors, profile connectors


Building a MageBridge site

• Installation
– Magento, Joomla!, MageBridge extension
• Configure everything
– Bridge connection (API), bridge behaviour
– Menus, modules, other extensions
• Modify theming
– Magento theme, Joomla! template
– Styling (CSS in either Joomla! or Magento)
– Modify Magento layout (PHTML-template, XML-layouts)


MageBridge basic concepts


About the extension

• Practice
– No core hacks, coding standard documentation
• Technology
– MVC, helpers, plugins, modules
– Specific API = loader, registry, bridge, proxy
• License
– GNU/GPL (Joomla! extensions) > Subversion access
– Custom EULA / OSL (Magento extensions)
• Pricing
– 195 Euro per license
– 6 domains, 1 year of upgrades (including major upgrades)


Visual integration

• Joomla! component
– Magento “content” block

• Joomla! modules
– Other blocks (cart, tags)
– Products, categories, login

• Search integration
• Breadcrumbs


Combined theming

• Magento theme
– XML layout, PHTML templates, CSS skin
• Joomla! template
– Little PHP, jdoc-tags, CSS skin

Magento headers are merged into Joomla! <head>
– CSS, JavaScript (conflict between MooTools and Prototype)
– META-tags, title-tag, etcetera


Practical benefit of MageBridge

• Joomla! is used as CMS-system
– Better WYSIWYG-editors
– Hierarchy of categories (and sections)

• Joomla! is used as site building tool
– Joomla! Menu Manager
– Joomla! templating
– Joomla! module management
– No need to touch Magento XML-layouts or PHTML-templates

• Magento is used for e-commerce


MageBridge specific


MageBridge usage

• Basic usage
– Shop with products and blog

• Advanced usage
– Membership / club
– Software subscriptions
– Private sales


MageBridge Store connectors

• Use Joomla! logic to determine Magento store
• Examples:
– Multilingual integration (JoomFish, Nooku)
– Special Magento stores on specific days (Christmas catalog)
– Special Magento stores for specific users (Private Sales)


MageBridge Product connectors

• Sell Joomla! logic in Magento
• Examples:
– Access control (Joomla! 1.6 ACLs, NoixACL)
– Private downloads (DOCman)
– Memberships (OSEMSC, MageBridge itself)
– Newsletter subscription (Acajoom, ccNewsletter)
– User rewards (JomSocial Karma Points)


MageBridge advanced concepts


Parsing content

• Magento content filters
– Add Magento CMS-tags to Joomla! content

• Joomla! Content Plugins
– Add Joomla! plugin-tags to Magento content


MageBridge API

• Connection between Joomla! and Magento
– Based on HTTP
• Transport protocols
– From Joomla! to Magento (and back): JSON
– From Magento to Joomla! (and back): XML-RPC


One Single HTTP Request

• Only 1 initialization of Magento application

• Coding API
– Register request with MageBridgeModelRegister class
– Fetch response from MageBridgeModelBridge::build()


Event forwarding

• Magento events are forwarded to Joomla!
– Joomla! plugins of type “magento”
• Joomla! events are forwarded to Magento
– Magento modules with observer functions with prefix “joomla_”


Scalability

• Extensible architecture of MageBridge
– Modules, plugins, connectors
– Coding API (register, bridge, helpers)

• Magento as solid platform
– API connections with backoffice
– Clustering, optimization (10.000+ products)


Connector code


MageBridge summary


MageBridge summary

• Visual integration, combined theming
• Components, modules, plugins
• Store connectors, product connectors
• Event forwarding


More information on MageBridge

• yireo.com/magebridge
– Blogs on Joomla!, Magento and MageBridge
– Tutorials on Joomla!, Magento and MageBridge
– MageBridge demos, screenshots, FAQ
– Demo days


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