[TYPO3-dev] Progress report II

[Steffen Kamper]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Georg Ringer wrote: on 01.08.2008 10:01:
> 
>>> How will you plan to bind in "checkout", "basket" etc in the TYPO3 
>>> integration? 
>>
>> There is currently no API for that to do it not @ Magento. So the 
>> first step will be to find out how Magento will support that!
> 
> Isn't it possible to just link to a Magento "checkout" site for a start? 
>   Or is this possible already?

this is possible as it's a simple link.
> 
>>> I can imagine that one wants to use "more" than just some product 
>>> listing here and there in TYPO3, but that one wants to use the whole 
>>> "Shop" (the browsing, categorization, the basket, maybe even the 
>>> registration process, the checkout process, etc) from Magento in 
>>> their TYPO3 environment. What are the concepts to do so in your 
>>> extension?
> 
>> Categorization, Browsing will be no problem and already planned by us. 
>> The rest is not planned yet but would be certainly very cool!
>>
>> Registration only makes sense with SSO which is maybe done by Murat.
> 
> I guess many sites doesn't need FE-users in TYPO3, but only "Shop 
> Users". So it might be useful to be able to "use" the complete 
> registration and checkout process from Magento for such sites, just by 
> linking to Magento. It might even look cooler than "sr_feuser_register" 
> or similar approaches that we have in TYPO3.
> 
> Currently the integration uses SOAP, which works over http. Having 
> Magento and TYPO3 on the same server (even same DocumentRoot), isn't 
> there a way to use Magento's API locally instead of through SOAP?
> 
the API supports 2 ways of communication: soap and xml-rpc.
Magento uses ZEND-Framework, so there should be also a way for direct 
access, we have to check this.

vg Steffen