e107

I am setting up a site using e107, and I'd like to use ZenCart with it. Is there a plug-in or is it not compatible?

How do I do this?

Thanks!

Why do you think you need a CMS when Zen Cart can act as a simple CMS and a full ecommerce solution.

Because I want my site to have a forum, links, banners, news, chat, calendar, etc., as well as a store. Does ZenCart do all that?

PS: Like your amazon!

Have you peeked in the downloads section ...

Yep, but I don't see a forum or chat function.

I would have to agree with mdfloyd

If you can work with PHP code, then the Easy Embed Mod would probably do what you want -- the easiest way possible.

Gidday

We run an E107 Site that fully integrates with Zencart. Our users can use the same login and password etc.

There is a plugin found here
http://plugins.e107.org/e107_plugins/psilo/psilo.php?artifact.178
and here
http://plugins.e107.org/e107_plugins/psilo/psilo.php?artifact.172

Both work fine and you can see them working in our main site, but they have some short comings.
http://www.ozprodrivers.com.au/home.php

Unfortunately we are in the process of changing to Joomla so we have budgeted to make a Bridge between the two as we haven't found anything to do it unless we are blind.

Hope this helps Sorry to be so late

ozprodrivers:

Both work fine and you can see them working in our main site, **but they have some short comings.**Care to elaborate on those shortcomings??? Joomla is my current CMS of choice, and I'm hoping to see something come out of one or more of the Joolma bridge projects in the works.. However, in the meantime the E107 CMS has piqued my interest.. (having a Zen bridge is a contributing factor..) I'd like to hear your opinions on the shortcomings as you see it in the Zen bridge..

ozprodrivers:

Gidday

We run an E107 Site that fully integrates with Zencart. Our users can use the same login and password etc.

There is a plugin found here
http://plugins.e107.org/e107_plugins/psilo/psilo.php?artifact.178
Would this be the plugin you are using? It seems to be better than the second one you mentioned. Also, did you incorporate both into one database, as recommended on the plugin page?

Both work fine and you can see them working in our main site, but they have some short comings.
http://www.ozprodrivers.com.au/home.php
Checked you Home page but do not see what you are referring to?

Having installed / customized a few e107 sites already, I am happy to hear there is a Zen Cart bridge.

I'm gonna need a bigger plate pretty soon! :wink:

Gidday

The two modules integrate the two dbase's between e107 and zencart so our users have a seamless login and pw for the two sites. It is Ok but it doesn't share and update between the two 100%. It needs some more programing to make this happen. We have had to do some work on it to make it work a little better already, but in fairness it has done the trick.

No we didn't use the same database we have them separate, everything was done on the fly.

I am sorry I jumped the gun a bit, In reference to the comment "you can see it in operation on our front page". We custom made a module to share the products from Zencart into the front page of our e107 website. This you can see the two in operation, top left hand corner, bottom right corner.
We will release it soon into the Modules once we are 100% sure it is operational

The user bridge as you will realize is all back end stuff

Hope this is of help

Dave

Yes this was very helpful.. Thanks for your response!:smile:

ozprodrivers:

Gidday

The two modules integrate the two dbase's between e107 and zencart so our users have a seamless login and pw for the two sites. It is Ok but it doesn't share and update between the two 100%. It needs some more programing to make this happen. We have had to do some work on it to make it work a little better already, but in fairness it has done the trick.

No we didn't use the same database we have them separate, everything was done on the fly.

I am sorry I jumped the gun a bit, In reference to the comment "you can see it in operation on our front page". We custom made a module to share the products from Zencart into the front page of our e107 website. This you can see the two in operation, top left hand corner, bottom right corner.
We will release it soon into the Modules once we are 100% sure it is operational

The user bridge as you will realize is all back end stuff

Hope this is of help

Dave

Just to add to the zencart bridge module. Today we had an example of the short comings. An ozprodrivers member could not login to the shop using his main website login and pw. We had to get him to reset his zencart password and he was right to order which he did.
All we can say is unless we had been there to assist him and talk it through he would have been a frustrated member and this will evolve into a no sale.
We are not sure how many are like this but once we finish our Joomla site we should have it sorted.

Cheers