I have started using price tapestry today and want to know if anyone has integrated this to any of the available OS content management systems available.
There are only 2 topics I could find mentioning CMS:
1. PHP-Nuke integration - outcome seemed to be not worthwhile
2. Drupal - this was mentioned in context of creating a forum, but didn't go as far as saying if it had been integrated into site and admin elements of Drupal.
I would like to be able to use a CMS to manage all elements of a site including the nice affiliate feed management features provided by pricetapestry.
Thanks David, I had asked the question more in hope than anticipation, time to start reading how to build a CMS module!
Cheers
Andy
i like the idea to to make an integration, maybee we can make a topic about it. (there is a lot of possible with Joomla but i go starting with Drupal )
Thx HEnk
Hi HEnk,
I am starting off using Drupal as well, there is a good tutorial and documentation on creating custom modules.
Got the basic example module working, no great issues using the 'on this date' example.
Will start having a look over the admin sections, then onto the main page generation over the weekend.
Will post more updates later once I get some of the price tapestry code integrated.
Andy
I have given up on trying to integrate to drupal for now as there was no facility to get started quickly using a wrapper. I have succeeded in using Joomla as suggested by HEnk, as it has a simple wrapper feature, which I can use to get the basic integration I wanted, while I work on a more robust link.
If you want to see what it looks like see www.slangevar.co.uk
There is only a single merchant at the moment, but will be expanding this in the near future.
My aim is to get Joomla set up so that it generates menus dynamically based on the content in price tapestry database, so I am currently working through documentation of Joomla components.
Will post further when any significant development.
Andy
Hi,
Wrapper or i frame is not a problem for me, to integrate it in joomla thats a problem but when its done you have a lot of futured like:
suggest a product by e-mail, search, comment functions maybee David would like to help :)
link
Can you tell me what it cost to do that pm me for this !
HEnk
Tried the wrapper in PHPNuke, didn't work quit well.
Got as far as integrating the whole PT front end in PHPNuke, looks very nice. I'll start working on integrating the backend one of these days.
Like what you did with your site Henk. are u using the wrapper functionality or did you make a component out of PT for Joomla?
Mikey
Hi,
There is no integration between Price Tapestry and Drupal. I use Drupal for this website (mainly for the forum feature) but other than that there is no connection.
As regards performing an integration; I suppose that the backend can stay pretty much as it is; and then you would take the SQL code and the HTML modules from the front end as a starting point for your integration. Most of the scripts in Price Tapestry have the following structure....
<?phprequire("includes/common.php");
// CODE TO PERFORM SERCH OR GET PRODUCT FROM DB
require("html/header.php");
// CALL TO HTML DISPLAY MODULES TO DISPLAY RESULTS OR PRODUCT
require("html/footer.php");
?>
If you were to recreate the functionality of a Price Tapestry page within a 3rd party CMS; you would need to make sure that you included:
require("includes/common.php");// CODE TO PERFORM SERCH OR GET PRODUCT FROM DB
...and then use the contents the HTML modules called in the following section...
// CALL TO HTML DISPLAY MODULES TO DISPLAY RESULTS OR PRODUCT...to display the data as required. You would not need the header or footer includes. The other thing to consider would be the styles that you may need to incorporate from Price Tapestry's default.css into your CSM stylesheet.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.