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MageBridge 
Version
1.2 stable (last update on Nov 17, 2009)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
24
Favoured
5
License
GPL
Commercial
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3150
Date Added
8 September 2009
** Combined theming **
The whole suite enables you to integrate Magento within Joomla! quickly, but the flexible architecture also allows you to achieve any setup you like. Both Magento theme and Joomla! template are combined in one single page. Out of the box, this makes things like nice without much effort. When optimizing the themes, tuning could be done on both sides (Magento theme or Joomla! template) or one side only.
** Multiple extensions, dual licensing **
The extensions are divided into two types: First of all there are Joomla! extensions (a component, modules and plugins) licensed under the GNU/GPL, and secondly a Magento module licensed under a custom End User License Agreement. Communication between Joomla! and Magento is done through JSON and XML-RPC, therefor all extensions comply to the licensing scheme of the system they're running on.
** Event forwarding **
MageBridge offers various way to extend the normal behavior. Besides from regular Joomla! plugins that can integrate with the MageBridge API, plugins can also listen to specific events coming from Magento (a concept called "event forwarding").
** Connectors **
Also MageBridge uses connectors to connect the bridging functionality to third party Joomla! extensions. One group - store connectors - can be used to load a specific Magento store on runtime by looking at a certain condition in Joomla!. This is used to make MageBridge compatible with multi-lingual components like Nooku and Joom!Fish. Another group - product connectors - allow you to sell a Joomla! product through Magento. Using this mechanism, you could sell for instance Community Builder profiles or JomSocial karma points.
** What you get **
Members get access to a large amount of whitepapers and tutorials, that explain the usage, administration and extendibility of MageBridge more thoroughly.
Editor's Note
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bykennyro on October 11, 2009
simply and powerfull...no better way to get joomla & magento in one project...
byDiveNSail on September 22, 2009
This is exactly what I needed! Many thanks!
It sounds like a fair amount of work to make both Joomla and Magento work properly... But it sounds like it's the right tool to make it happen.
It sounds like a fair amount of work to make both Joomla and Magento work properly... But it sounds like it's the right tool to make it happen.