MageBridgeTM acts as a bridge between the Joomla! CMS and the Magento e-commerce platform. It integrates MagentoTM within the Joomla!TM component-area, but also handles user authentication, content plugins, blocks as modules, and much much more.
Full integration
Only with MageBridge you can reach a full integration between Joomla! and Magento, and use your favorite Joomla! CMS to setup a professional and flexible webshop based on Magento.
Features
Visual integration:
- Product pages, category pages and layered navigation
- Shopping cart and checkout - all integrated into Joomla!
- Latest products, most popular products, tags
- Cross-selling, up-selling, compare products
- URL Key integration for search engine optimization
- Clean integration (W3C compliant)
- Combined theming
- Ready-to-go modules
- Search integration
User synchronization:
- Cross-site authentication
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Automatic user synchronization
- Automatic user creation
Third party integration:
- Joomla! plugins
- MageBridge connectors
- Language integration with Joom!Fish and Nooku using store connectors
- Profile integration with Community Builder and JomSocial
- Sell memberships or karma points using product connectors
Other features:
- Easy installer, one-click upgrades
- Advanced troubleshooter (System Check)
- Cross-domain - allows for Joomla! and Magento to be installed on separate webservers
- Easily publish a specific Magento store on a specific date (Christmas)
- Maximal performance - Magento API-integration in one single HTTP-request
- Usable with both Magento Community Edition as Magento Enterprise Edition
- Already testing MageBridge with Joomla! 1.6
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Minimum requirements
- Valid MageBridge license purchased through our YireoTM Shop
- Joomla! 1.5.12 or newer
- Magento CE 1.3, Magento CE 1.4, Magento EE 1.6, Magento EE 1.7
- PHP version 5.2 or newer
- MySQL 5 or newer
- PHP-setting allow_url_fopen enabled
- PHP-module APC active
- PHP-module CURL active
- PHP-module SimpleXML active
- PHP-module JSON active
- PHP-module mcrypt active
While not mandatory, we highly recommend the usage of Linux (instead of Windows) as hosting platform.
For Magento 1.4, some configuration settings are needed, which are listed in the guide MageBridge - Recommended Magento Settings.
Recommended reading
Warning for conflicts
Combining Magento and Joomla! into a single webpage, also involves combining two theming engines, which could cause conflicts. You need to solve these conflicts yourself, either by configuring the right options in MageBridge or by editing HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
We will guide you in this process as much as possible, but it will still require effort to build a proper Joomla!/Magento combination. On the Yireo site you can find an impressive amount of tutorials, whitepapers and FAQ, but this requires you to make a study when putting MageBridge to good use.
Ideal for webdesigners and webdevelopers
We only recommend MageBridge to webdesigners and webdevelopers. Knowledge of Magento XML layouts and Joomla! template overrides is not required for using MageBridge, but is required to build a solid webshop.
