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    I trialled Magento and found the latest version not too bad performance wise. It was slow as a dog a year ago but has improved heaps.

    It’s clean API makes it relatively easy to integrate into MODx, you only need a few lines of code. I then modified the three main templates not to generate the page headers and footers, added some rewrite magic to .htaccess and voila the Magento front-end showed up in my MODx. I did not bother to integrate the back-end though.

    However my preference would also be to have a native MODx cart with proper integration into the manager.
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      @hwmaier - I would love to know a little more about how you integrated Magento.

      I’m on my 4th Magento project now and I have to say it is fantastic. A little difficult to get your head round at first but I’m flying now. To have it work alongside MODx would be a dream come true.

      For someone to develop a similar application for MODx is going to take years - my advice would be ’don’t hold your breath - go down the Magento integration route’ they’ve thought of everything in terms of selling on the internet and you can get up and running pretty quickly - the only shortcoming is the CMS. That’s not taking anything away from the great work done by ScottyD and others - they’ve done some excellent stuff but if I had the programming skills I would choose to work on Magento / MODx integration.

      I’ve got to disagree with jusmeig (sorry!) Magento is not convoluted - its theming and templating system will allow you to get where you need to be quickly, as long as you’ve done your reading and followed the excellent tutorials.
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        Quote from: chrisandy at Oct 05, 2009, 01:27 PM

        @hwmaier - I would love to know a little more about how you integrated Magento.
        Ok I let the cat out of the bag, see my new post here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,40682.0.html