The MageBridge suite is being developed by Yireo.com and consists out of various extensions for both Joomla! as well as Magento. After the installation of the MageBridge Installer and the configuration of the Yireo MageBridge license-key, all these extensions can be installed with a single mouse-click.

Besides clicking within the Magento webshop itself, which should navigate as it would in a normal Magento environment, you could also test one of the following.

Theming

This demo-site shows you the default RHUK Milkyway template of Joomla! together with the Magento "default" theme. No extra styling has been done, so you can see how MageBridge enables theming without requiring extra work. 

See both applications in action

While Joomla! is the primary website here, Magento could also be visited through a seperate URL: http://demo1.magebridge.com/magento/. You can open up both webapplications in your browser to see how a change in Joomla! is effecting the Magento site, and vice versa.

Logging in and logging out

If you login to Joomla!, you will also be logged on into the Magento application simultaneously, as long as you visit Magento within the same browser session. If you login to Magento, you will also be logged on into Joomla!. The same applies for logging out. This behavior is called Single Sign On.

If you don't have a Joomla! account yet, you can register yourself as Joomla! user. As soon as you do that, you will also be registered as a Magento customer. Again the reverse also applies. When you change your user details within Joomla!, the changes are also made in Magento. Again the reverse also applies.

Content search

When searching through the Joomla! search-box, not only Joomla! content is searched for, but as well Magento products. Magento products are displayed within the search-component, using their title, description and an URL leading back to the MageBridge component area.

Tagging

This Joomla! article has configured the keywords "sexy" and "camera"  as Meta Keywords. These keywords are picked up by the MageBridge Tags Content Plugin within Joomla!, which than matches Magento products with these keywords as "tags". The products are shown below in this article.

For the theme-developers among you, this is not a Magento block - the Joomla! plugin uses its own layout file which can be overriden in your own Joomla! template using template overrides. The HTML-block is by default using the same HTML-tags as Magento block, giving it the same appearance as Magento blocks.