[TYPO3-UG US] MySigg Launched

[Zachary Davis, Cast Iron Coding LLC]

Thanks, Ron.

Magento is good -- although there are definitely some places to be 
careful with it. I've found that performance has gotten much better in 
recent releases than it was in the past. We've done a handful of these 
Magento/TYPO3 sites in the past year and have come up with a pretty 
solid approach, I think, for sharing template assets between the two 
installations. We should talk more in Dallas. If you end up going with 
Magento, I'd be happy to share some of the code we wrote for integrating 
TYPO3 navigation with Magento navigation.

I looked at the TYPOGento project, but I wasn't convinced that it was 
still under active enough development to make it a viable solution. In 
general, I'm finding that a lightweight approach to Magento/TYPO3 
integrations is better than a heavier one, given the complexity of both 
systems, but I guess it ultimately depends on the project.


Zach



Ron Hall wrote:
> Nice work Zach.  Sharp site.
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> At the conference I would like to visit with you about how the Magento experience was for you all. That is a system I am thinking about learning. I know Marc Infield and his group have had experience with it as well.
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> Thanks,
> Ron Hall
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> On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Zachary Davis, Cast Iron Coding LLC wrote:
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>> Hi Everyone,
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>> Another company chooses TYPO3! We just launched the SIGG USA's site, which uses Magento and TYPO3. Check it out at http://mysigg.com
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>> For this project, we wrote some code that takes advantage of Magento's SOAP API to integrate navigation between TYPO3 and Magento. We also wrote a backend module in TYPO3 that provides an interface for sending orders from Magento to warehouse for fulfillment. Look and feel of the site had to match that of the Swiss SIGG site at http://sigg.com, although we took some liberties with the Magento templates.
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>> I'd love to hear what others in the US are doing - share your projects so this newsgroup isn't empty when I look at it each day :)
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>> best,
>> Zach
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