Customizing SMF > Portals, Bridges, and Integrations
Site + Forum + CMS + eCommerce
iverSUN:
I've been running SMF for many, many years now and am currently on SMF2.0.
As we continue to grow, I'd like to add a blog and a eCommerce shopping cart. Currenty, www.site.com is where my SMF forum resides. I'd like to perhaps add www.site.com/blog and www.site.com/shop, but I'd like them all to work together.
I can't seem to find any decent ways to make SMF2 + Wordpress work together. There are eCommerce solutions available for Wordpress. I might have found a solution for Joomla, but I haven't tried it yet. There are eCommerce solutions available for Joomla.
What's the best way to integrate everything together (namely users, avatars, etc) to talk to each other, allow one login, post comments (either on blog OR forum), post a review (on eCommerce), etc? Has anyone had any success with this idea?
I've googled the ****** outta this, and I just can't seem to find an easy way to make it happen. I'm sure I could hack it all together, but that may cause problems when I need to upgrade the CMS, shopping cart, forum, etc.
I don't want to stop SMF unless I have to... so I am asking for some insight, hoping someones got an answer for me.
Discuss... thanks! 8)
Ricky.:
Since there are SMF+WP integration, you can install WP on your site along with ecommerce plugin. Have you tried WP-SMF integration plugin, you can find it on wp plugin codex . Also if you want it your own way then you can use SMF api to do integration yourself.
vbgamer45:
I have seen this WordPress integration mod for SMF 2.0 which might be helpful
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=434738.0
iverSUN:
--- Quote from: Ricky. on March 29, 2012, 01:57:32 AM ---Have you tried WP-SMF integration plugin, you can find it on wp plugin codex.
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The only one I found that looks like it MIGHT work, kind of, is called SMF2WP by JWall.
Sadly his design means I'd have to relocate my forum into a subfolder on the wordpress install, which I don't want to do. I'd like to keep the forum at www.site.com and not change it to www.site.com/forum or www.site.com/wp/forum. Even if I did change my directory structure, who knows how well it would actually work. A well designed plugin should be flexible enough to adapt, which was me wondering if it would be worth it.
--- Quote from: vbgamer45 on March 29, 2012, 02:00:10 AM ---I have seen this WordPress integration mod for SMF 2.0 which might be helpful
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=434738.0
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I saw that too before posting, and I wasn't real pleased with it based on the 10 pages of comments I read. For one, the author SlammedDime hasn't been seen around these parts in 4 months, which makes me a little uncomfortable. Furthermore, from what I can tell, it doesn't do the relativity simple task of using the avatars people have chosen on SMF to use on WordPress. There are some miscellaneous other concerns I have, but wanted to create a dialog first.
I can't imagine I'm the only guy wanting to integreate a singular user system across a forum/blog/shopping cart/etc...
igirisjin:
I dumped Joomla and just used SMF but I lost things in others ways - it was the best for our basic needs. Joomla is great for building websites and I have watched it grow a lot since 2006.
I'm not sure how the development is going on but there is a component that manages login sessions and users between different software - JFusion (free). In 2011 it seemed that the development of an SMF 2 plugin for it was not progressing much. They had to deal with many changes to the Joomla package during that time.
If you were using SMF 1 it wouldve been a piece of cake to link them up, and with a shopping cart package. I got tired of waiting for SMF 2 and 'downgraded' to a portal here. They are pretty good though.
For SMF 2 it might be worth hanging on a while - it might be ready in a few months.
OHHH! Shock!
http://www.jfusion.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=7619
Might be working with SMF2 for certain versions of Joomla
The final straw for me was that the SMF subscriptions wouldnt work in an iframe of Joomla (paypal site rejected it) and I think that is still the case as hooks not allowed.
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