I have been searching but have not found much information on this. Would it be possible to completely override Magento's frontend interface? What I mean with this is completely remove the shopping cart, menu's, product listings, everything, and replace with a completely customized interface, which will not be used for a eCommerce portal.
I just found out that our customer does not in fact want a eCommerce solution, although we have built a lot of functionality on Magento and it would be a shame to have to re-write EVERYTHING on another platform and still build a ordering framework as well.
So my question is this, can you build a theme on Magento that only shows parts of the system completely unrelated to the actual 'shop' and where would I find information to figure out how to do this? I'd like to keep the custom frontend in Magento to easily re-use the product view blocks, etc. but Magento itself is not a system our client wants.
I have thought of an alternative where the Magento shop is merely placed in a sub-directory and used as a sort of 'engine' to run the eCommerce side of the system and building a completely different system which integrates with Magento, the downside of this of course being that we would have to rewrite completed work as well.
What would be the best route to follow?
Here is one way to go about it:
Edit the homepage via the backend and enter the following code in to it:
{{block type="catalog/product" template="page/homepage.phtml"}} this will allow you to display products on the page.
Make sure that when you enter the code you can see html markup (and not just the output)
Make a completely customized webpage showing whatever you want
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I wonder if any of you could help?!
I've recently started a new project which requires an e-commerce system, with that being said I have installed magento and have started to play around with it.... however I am struggling to find any sort of information on using the mage.php file.
What I need really is help on the list below...
I've been looking for the code to display a product from magento on a page that is not situated within magento's platform. Can anyway point me to the code needed for this please
I'd like to incorporate the checkout/login or logout/my account links on every page even when not viewing a page located in magentos system.
I suppose basically I want to use magento to handle the product side of things but want to create my website without having to touch magento except from to call in certain functions.
Any help on this would be appreciated!
You can build the website using an easier content management system such as Wordpress and only use Magento for the Shop section of the website.
There is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to display products from a Magent website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/magento/
I have an existing PHP/MySQL application (non-WP). I'm showing bits and pieces of this application via iframes in a WP site. Right now the client has two admins; WP and my own custom admin and it's inconvenient for them.
What I want to achieve is to be able to show my custom admin inside WP. Every section of my admin is quite simple and with few controls so I don't mind doing a re-write to adapt this code to WP.
Having never really developed anything related to WordPress I need to know conceptually how to approach this. I don't need for code samples but rather the steps involved in all of this. Any gotchas from experienced WP developers are quite welcome too.
I think you can develop a WordPress plugin for your non-WP application.
Here's the approach I would try (you only say your app is quite simple, so I'm just assuming it's made of few pages/forms):
Create a plugin that leverage WP authentication
Show your app inside iframes in the WP admin panel
Change your app UI in order to match or use the WP admin panel one.
I did this in the past and having an iframe to be showed in the WP admin it's quite easy and users are happy to have just one authentication point.
I just recently started working with a Magento site, and so far I'm really not liking it. I need to remove a couple links from the main navigation, but I can't seem to find the option for it. I've googled it numerous times, and all I see are examples for coding the navigation. My question is, can you edit the site navigation like you can with say wordpress? Seeing how it's a cms I'd imagine the user should be able to make changes to the navigation using some type of interface, and without having to pull the files from the server and edit them.
Also just out of curiosity, for anyone experienced with Magento would you say it's a good choice for a cms? I've heard of it before, but haven't seen many sites that use it.
No!, so you have three options here.
Learn how to extend the navigation with the 100's of tutorials out there, it is really not that hard, assuming you have a theme you just have to edit app/design/frontend/[theme]/default/template/page/html/topmenu.phtml
Get an extension to do it for you.
Hire a developer to do it for you, we create a static block with installer for the html which make it slightly more user friendly to update in the future.
Stackoverflow is a bad place to ask questions like this, it is aimed at programmers and doing such a procedure is rudimentary stuff, I really hope you are a client trying to be cheap rather than someone who claims they can run this site.
Edit: The cms features are ok but you need to be able to code to set them all up so the end user can make the changes with WYSIWYG.
If you don't want to code for navigation then you can do below things
1) Create category and then Display Settings=>Display Mode=>static block only and Display Settings=>CMS Block=>static block name. In static block u can include in page url or custom page
2)You need to hire developer
If you're using Magento and have an integrated WordPress blog, it's possible to design a completely custom menu in the WordPress Admin using the menu builder. You have complete control over what menu items you want and the hierarchy of each item.
To get this to work, you need to integrate your WordPress blog using WordPress Integration in full integration mode. Your Magento template also has to be using the default Topmenu block.
I want to implement one page checkout part of Magento from the outside of Magento structure (i.e. using API calls). If it is possible, I want to start using the existing code to reduce the implementation effort. So, how can I modify the existing checkout implementation in order to make it run from outside? Or, is there any other implementation which provides Magento checkout functionality together with the UI?
I'm not entirely sure what it is your after but if you're thinking of using Magento checkout say in Wordpress then you could simply include app/Mage.php and use pretty much all the functionality provided by Magento.
Say create a product (you would need one to check out) on the fly if it isn't already in Magento or render any templates - checkout in your case.
Not a problem to insert "add to cart" buttons to any website and use AJAX to request cart contents to the same page.
Also I just needed to code pretty much the same thing for OneStepCheckout which opens up in lightbox and allows you to check out from pretty much anywhere. HTML onepager for example or from Facebook:P
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good script to manage a catalog of products. Just need basic stuff, like being able to browse by category and or tags and search. Without many extras, as I'd like to have it working inside a CMS.
softpedia has a few scripts, but I'm also considering creating it from scratch. Ideal would be something in between that allows a bit of customization and control of layout, but takes care of the backend. So adding editing and managing items should be simple.
any ideas?
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has anyone worked with http://www.oscommerce.com and can shed some light?
CubeCart is quite simplistic and easy to use, there's also osCommerce and Magento if your looking for a more advanced ecommerce system.
ZenCart is a popular solution, and free. Of course any (good) product listing app is going to be a shopping cart.
virtuemart may work out for you as well.. you can add it on top of joomla .. that way you would have a CMS to create and change the custom pages as well.. the other solutions are good too but they are more cart oriented.