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Overriding the JomSocial-connector configuration

MageBridge uses connectors to add new functionality easily to the MageBridge-core, and for instance customer profiles can be modified using profile-connectors.

This tutorial explains you how to modify the default configuration of the JomSocial Profile Connector. This is very advanced functionality and most MageBridge customers will not need this at all. Make sure you have read and understood the Integrating JomSocial and MageBridge guide before jumping into this.

The JomSocial Profile Connector

The MageBridge JomSocial Profile Connector handles two things:

• It maps JomSocial profile-fields to Magento profile-fields (and vice versa), and there for allowing for profile-synchronization between JomSocial and Magento.
• It adds some MageBridge-links to the JomSocial Profile tab.

Configuration-file "jomsocial_default.php"

Both configurations (tab-links and profile field-conversions) are hard-coded. Because we felt only a few people need to change these settings, we did not want to offer yet another complete configuration-panel just for that. The GUI would basically get too complicated.

Instead, these configurations are based on (simple) PHP-arrays saved in a default configuration-file. But this configuration-file can be easily overridden with your own custom configuration-file.

The default configuration-file is located in the folder components/com_magebridge/connectors/connectors/profile and is called jomsocial_default.php.

Overriding the default configuration-file

You can just create a new copy of this configuration-file inside the same directory, as long as the copy starts with "jomsocial_" and ends with ".php". For instance you could choose the naming suffix "custom" and create a new file called "jomsocial_custom.php".

To activate this new configuration-file, navigate to Components > MageBridge > Connectors and open up the JomSocial Profile Connector. On the right, change the parameter Configuration from "default" to "custom" and save the connector. That's it.

Modifying tabs

The configuration-file contains a simple array called $tab. Do not change the name of this variable. Overriding the configuration-file is only ment to add or remove links within the array-element $tab['children'].

Modifying field-conversions

The array $conversion contains a list of JomSocial-fields and their Magento equivalents. You could change or remove JomSocial-fields, but note that JomSocial also allows you to change or remove the fieldcodes through the backend: If you want to remove a field from the synchronization, it's perhaps a smarter idea to just rename the fieldcode in JomSocial.