Integrating Joomla with Magento by Anh Nguyen (August 2009)

* Teams * Community Blog * Leadership Blog Latest Leadership Posts * An end of an era * New webmasters appointed for the community site Latest Posts * Happy 4th Birthday to Joomla! * Being “The Vendor” for Security Issues * Webinar: Introducing Joomla! Magento Integration * Preparing Joomla!Day Germany 2009 * Webinar: Introducing an Accessible Administrator Template * Webinar: Introducing JImageLib * Webinar: Introducing civiCRM Modules Sat 29 Aug 2009 Webinar: Introducing Joomla! Magento Integration Written by Mark Dexter Magento is a powerful e-commerce solution but is lacking in general CMS functionality. For his GSoC 2009 project, Anh Nguyen created an extension that allows you to use Joomla! for your regular website and Magento for your e-commerce site. Best of all, to the user, it looks and feels like one integrated site. This is a clip from the longer presentation available here: community.joomla.org

How to install Joomla 1.7

How to install Joomla 1.7 Step 1: Download Joomla 1.7 from the link below. www.joomla.org Step 2: Go to C:\wamp\www Step 3: And Create a new folder with any name you want eg: C:\wamp\www\mywebsite Step 4: Copy the file Joomla_1.7.0-Stable-Full_Package inside the new folder and extract it. Step 5: Go to your browser and type this address: localhost (where “mywebsite” is the name of the folder you created inside C:\wamp\www). The Joomla installation screen will be displayed. Step 6: In this step you must select a language for the installation process. Step 7: In this page, Joomla 1.7 performs some compatibility tests for our system. Click on “Next”. Step 8: This page shows the GNU General Public License under which Joomla 1.7 is released. Click on “Next”. Step 9: This is the most important step. In this page you must insert the info about your database. – Database Type: Select MySQLi – Host Name: Type localhost – Username: Type the database username. Since you are using Wamp Server, the username is root. – Password: Type the database password. Since you are using Wamp Server, you can leave this blank. – Database Name: Type the database name you created earlier in phpMyAdmin (mydatabase). – Table Prefix: This is the prefix of the Joomla MySQL tables. You can leave the default value, insert your own value or just insert the typical jos_ value. Click on “Next”. Step 10: In this step you can configure an FTP. You can safely bypass this step for now. Step 11: Here you can