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Hi there,

We have a magazine website built in EE, and a related store built in Magento (sitting on a store. subdomain).

To the user, the setup seems quite seamless, however I have 2 issues:

1. When our users search on the EE site, we’d really like the results to also show items from the store.
eg. “Haircare” should show haircare articles from EE and all the haircare products from Magento.

2. It would be really desirable for users to only have one login. 
So users can comment on EE hosted articles, but also purchase items through the Magento hosted store.

Is there a plugin or method to allow us to search and/or link the accounts on both sites?

Many thanks,
Glen

Hello Glen,

Thank you for posting your question here on the ExpressionEngine forums.

I am not aware of any integration or Add-Ons that assist with integration between ExpressionEngine and Magento.

I can move this thread to the Community Help Forum if you would like. This may have been done before!

Cheers,

Thanks that might be helpful!

Hi Glen,

We’ve done some integration with Magento in the past, but not your specific scenarios. :(

I’m not aware of any third party add-ons to help you link Magento with Expression Engine.

1. Search - for speed, I would suggest creating stub entries in EE for each product in Magento. You could hook into Magento so that it creates the stub entry in EE when you are creating/updating the product in Magento. Along with the title and product description, you should store the Magento product/detail URL. Your search result links can then easily point to the Magento product/detail page.

If your catalogue isn’t that big, you could manage this by hand. It’s not great to have duplication, but it’s necessary to ensure the search results are returned quickly enough. I wouldn’t like to try to get the same results in real-time by using Magento’s API.

2. Accounts - I don’t see why you couldn’t have both accounts ‘in sync’. I would choose one system to act as master for this, let’s say Magento. You would have to hook into the Magento register() function to get it to call EE’s register(); the same for login() and logout() functions. Solspace User module /might/ be useful for this customisation. I think it would be better to let Magento do your account management because it’s tied into orders and fulfilment.

Magento has comments, so if that’s all you’re using EE user accounts for, it might be easier to look into using Magento comments for your EE articles.

Whatever you decide to do, you’ll be digging into code. Good luck!

Thanks,

Adrian

Hi Design by Front,

Thanks for that awesome review and information. That’s awesome!

Cheers,

DBF that is incredibly helpful information.  Thank you so much for taking the time to jot it all down for us.  Really appreciate it.
Btw - Typecast looks awesome! Can’t wait.

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