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I’ve developed quite a few Joomla and Zencart sites, some clients taking both together for their website. Joomla being great for the website CMS, and Zencart great for the shopping cart. The problem is, no complete, working integration exists between them. None that I have found anyway. A couple have been written and are work in progress in my mind, but still lacking in fundamental functionality. So the website ends up clearly as two separate systems to the website visitor which is not ideal. So I have spent some time trying to think of a way to integrate the two together and have come up with what looks to be a good solution… CURL.

This blog explains how to set this up in order to show Zencart within your website design. You will need knowledge of PHP, CURL and creating and assigning templates in Joomla and Zencart. Note: this is not integrating the Admin but the front end, to give the impression to the visitor that they are on the same website!

Actually, you don’t even have to use Zencart. It can be any other separate system to your Joomla website that you can change the template for. So you can use this method to add any Joomla module onto any other non-Joomla website. Read more…