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You may have known Magento, the opensource shopping cart. I’m a fan of Magento and it truly looks promising.

magentocommerce.com

Yesterday I signed up as a member and realized the user CP looks like EE.

So, anyone here who know or can confirm Magento is using EE as their website’s CMS?

I don’t have a link at hand, but, yes, it’s been mentioned before, they use EE as their CMS.

Thanks a lot

It is not my site but apparently this site integrates EE with Magento..
http://www.tcho.com/

The guys at Magento have just posted up a tutorial for integrating EE into Magento
http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/tutorial-integrating-3rd-party-cms-content-within-magento/

Woohaa, that sounds like a great opportunity! Will definitely take a look at that, a lot of people are asking for EE + e-commerce. This would be a way of combining two great solutions.

Of course there is also FoxEE now, this uses foxcart, I’m not sure which of these two methods are the most efficient for non php experts

Looks like it is only diplaying content rather than integrating membership, but it could be useful for some people.

Bummer… Of course one would prefer an integrated approach!

It looks straight foreward enough, barring the learning curve for Magento templating, and don’t forget this part:

Note: Both Magento and EE must be installed with the Apache URL rewrite feature.

i installed magento a coupla months ago and there were serious performance issues. just the default page loaded extremely slow on my xampp localhost. the first thing i tried was to upload a product image and their “rotate image” feature simply didnt rotate anything.

perhaps things have been fixed since then but when i checked the forums alot of people were complaining about performance, and im not talking milliseconds ... this was like running photoshop on a 512MB ram win95 machine. “they” were saying its meant to be on a dedicated box.

I’m still hoping for a basic EE shopping cart. One that only collects items and then generates a mail with a standard order, to be paid separately. Most of my customers would be perfectly happy with such an approach. I think most e-commerce solutions are way to complex and now it sounds like magento has the same problem.

I did have a short discussion with Solspace. Freeform could be tweaked to do this, but I never found the time to develop it seriously. I would need to make sql queries to achieve it.

If anyone needs literally a simple shopping cart whereby all it does is stores the items the user wants to purchase whilst they navigate a site and then this selection can be sent using a form then some time back I created a plugin which does just this. You can see it in action here - http://www.flyheli.co.uk/cart/category/C45/. Please feel free to add items to a cart to get a feel for the action but please just don’t send any final forms off at the checkout stage as this is a live client site.

If anyone is interested then please PM me for more information.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark, I was hoping for such a response. Will take a look at it!

EDIT: just took a quick look, the VISA payment isn’t part of the plugin, or is it?

Hiya,

No. All the plugin does is stores the items that you want to purchase. This then allows you spit out item names, prices and all that bumph anywhere and anytime you want on your site.

The form on the checkout page in the link above was more or less hard-coded and then the plugin was used to spit out the information in hidden fields so when the form is sent the details are sent along with it. That form doesn’t handle any payment processing whatsoever. That would be down to the designer / programmer of the site to take care of.

Best wishes,

Mark