[TYPO3-english] Magento - Typo3

[Simon Browning]

Michael Türk wrote:
> Honestly, you can not really compare those products in points of 
> functionality, flexibility and architecture. You are right, Magento is 
> far more complex and harder to install, configure and do the templating, 
> but you get lots of more stuff out of that system than any other around.
> 
> Additionally, running both, TYPO3 and Magento, on one server is not much 
> harder than running one. With a few optimizations on the server you can 
> easily run quite a lot of instances of Magento, TYPO3 and TypoGento 
> within one server environment (it depends more or less on the expected 
> user numbers).
> 
> Greetings from Karlsruhe
> Michael
> 
> On 2009-05-06 04:12:51 +0200, Andreas Becker <ab.becker at web.de> said:
> 
>> Hi Rick and Georg
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Georg Ringer <mail-spam at ringerge.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Rik Willems wrote:
>>>> Perhaps a nice place to start some discussion about Magento... I'm very
>>>> much interested in your opinions. Magento is quite new  but I hear good
>>>> things about it. How can I place Magento?
>>>
>>> it is the only real open source ecommerce product
>>
>>
>> Sorry Georg, but it is not I guess!
>>
>> There is also Presta Shop which is 100% OpenSource and free. OSL v. 3. 
>> But
>> the biggest benefit in Presta Shop is its size 6MB  - it is very fast and
>> lightwight and you don't need those huge server specs like you would need
>> running Magento and TYPO3 on one server. Check it out! The Presta Shop
>> community is growing more and more and quite fast since Magento 
>> introduced
>> their Business Modell with the very Expensive Enterprise Edition.
>>
>> A similar commercial Model has also the German Oxid Shop - the Oxid 
>> Shop is
>> also OpenSource! http://www.oxid-esales.com/ . The community edition is
>> released under GPL v3. Oxid has just been rewarded with the first 
>> price on
>> the OSBA in Nuernberg - http://www.osbf.de/en/node/1466
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> How does it compare with
>>>> tt_products or commerce?
>>>
>>> hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahha
>>> hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha
>>> .....
>>>
>>> it is like you would compare dreamwever to TYPO3, at least with
>>> tt_products.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Other thing I heard is that templating for Magento is hard. Some stuff
>>>> seems to be hard coded in stead of templated. Can anyone confirm this?
>>>
After that long change of responses, was the original question ever 
addressed?  That is getting the "TYPOGENTOSOAP API Error: Access denied" 
in the backend of TYPO3 when using the plugin.

It used to work fine for us but then just stopped one day.  It may be 
related to a php upgrade, not sure though.

Thanks.

Simon


>>> templates are a mixture of php and html, hardcoded is wrong.. there are
>>> many templates because of so many features
>>>
>>> I like it a lot
>>
>>
>> Like Georg said it is quite complex the templating and until you get
>> accustomed with it is a bit a pain in the ass IMHO. But as soon as you
>> figured out where to find what its fine.
>>
>> You really can't compare tt_products or commerce with a Shop solution 
>> like
>> Magento, Presto or Oxid. You won't compare a Bobby Car (Commerce) with a
>> Porsche (Presto) or a Rolls Royce (Magento). The last two are stand alone
>> applications with lots of features you will perhaps never find in 
>> commerce
>> or any other TYPO3 addon extension. The main purpose of these shop 
>> solutions
>> is to sell stuff and not to have a shop inside another CMS like with
>> commerce. Use typogento and you will have Magento running inside TYPO3 
>> quite
>> smoothly without that people notice that the shopping power is Magento 
>> - But
>> you will need a very good server to run both applications on it!
>>
>> Andi
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