Joomla! vs Magento

Moogla?

Joomla! vs Magento

Moogla

• 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

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Magento is hot

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Magento is hot

• Fast growth– Rapid development of new features

– Quick adaption of market (because there is no good alternative?)

– Buzz

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Why 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

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Serious 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

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Magento is for big shops

• Higher costs• Full implementation easily takes 50 hours of an expert• Cheap shared hosting doesn't 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

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Integrating Magento and Joomla! (1)

• Magento inside Joomla!– JFusion

– JMint

– MageBridge

• Joomla! inside Magento– JFusion (partially)

– MageBridge (partially)

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Integrating 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)

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Solution 1: No integration

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No 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

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Solution 2: JFusion

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What 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

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JFusion 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

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JFusion configuration on multiple levels

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JFusion packages

• Component (1 total)

• com_jfusion

• Plugins (6 total)

• User, Authentication, SystemSearch, Content

• Magelib

• Modules (13 total)

• mod_magecustomblock• mod_mageselectblock• mod_whosonline• mod_login• mod_user_activity

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Magento inside IFRAME

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JFusion 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');

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Solution 3: JMint

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What is JMint?

• Created by Anh Nguyen

• Google Summer of Code 2009 Project

• Latest version 1.0 in August 2009

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JMint 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!)

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Guru configuration

• Modify PHP-code of Joomla! class-file

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JMint packages

• Component• com_jmint

• Plugins• JMint User Plugin• JMint Authentication Plugin

• Modules• mod_jmint_content• mod_jmint_head

• Templates• Magento lookalike

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Component: User synchronization

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Module “mod_jmint_content”

• Any HTML-identifier (“CSS selector”) can be used

• Built-in caching

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Solution 4: MageBridge

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What is MageBridge?

• Created by Yireo

• Commercial package, free SVN-access

• Latest major version 1.6 in February 2011

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MageBridge 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

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MaeBridge 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

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Frontend integration

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Creating Menu-Items

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MageBridge 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');

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Comparison

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Comparison (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

Configurat ion Backend PHP-class Backend

Joomla! extension(s) Yes Yes Yes

Magento extension(s) No Yes Yes

Ease-of-setup Difficult Xtra difficult Fairly difficult

Documentat ion Yes Yes Yes

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Comparison (2): Users

JFusion JMint MageBridge

Authent icat ion from J to M Yes Yes Yes

Authent icat ion from M to J No Yes

User synchronizat ion Yes

Usergroup synchronizat ion No Yes

Single Sign In (integrated) Yes Yes Yes

Single Sign On (separate apps) Yes No Yes

Password synchronizat ion Yes No Yes

No

No (#1)

Yes (auto) Yes (manually)

Yes (partially)

Shadow Joomla! users (#2) Yes (optionally) 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

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Comparison (3): Visual integration

JFusion JMint MageBridge

Visual integrat ion Integrated Integrated

Magento blocks Yes Yes Yes

Search plugin Yes No Yes

Menu-Items No No Yes

Breadcrumbs No No Yes

Extra modules (cart , products) No No Yes

Hacks in Joomla! core No No

IFRAME (#1)

Yes (#2)

#1: JFusion 2.0 will introduce “Frameless Integration” of Magento#2: This could have been done through a simple System Plugin instead

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Comparison (4): Advanced

JFusion JMint MageBridge

Output caching No Yes Yes

Database integrat ion No No

Support for mult isite Yes No Yes

Backend integrat ion No Yes Yes

Full Magento bootstrap Yes Yes No

HTTP requests Mult iple Single Single

Install in same directory Yes No No

Yes (partially)

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Comparison (5): Extras

JFusion JMint MageBridge

JCE integrat ion No No Yes

Mult ilingual integrat ion No

Magento code inside Joomla! No

Joomla! after-sales act ions No No Yes

ACLs to apply private sales No No Yes

Yes (#1) Yes (#2)

Yes (#3) Yes (#4)

#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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Questions?