I’ve got a side project I’m working on using Zend Framework and JSON-RPC, in creating this API I wanted an interface that I could use to test the implementation, but without having to do a lot of work or install any software. After some quick Google searching I stumbled upon the jQuery.Zend.jsonrpc plugin and quickly got it working. This plugin is great, setup for it was a breeze and I was able to make API requests in no time. But what I didn’t like, was that I had to modify some javascript code everytime I needed to test new API method.

I needed to spend time working on the API, not writing javascript to test it.
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Update: I have decided to abandon this series. Primarily because after updating to the latest version of Magento, this method of hooking SilverStripe into Magento is not working. I am working on a new method to achieve this, at which point I’ll update / rewrite the ‘SilverStripe as CMS behind Magento’ posts.

In part 2 of this blog series, I’ll show how to make Magento talk to Silverstripe, including sharing the session id, user authentication status, and user id. We’ll include some basic error handling as well.

By the end of this post, we’ll have a fully functioning Magento 1.3.2 module that will allow you a basic integration with Silverstripe. For sake of brevity, I’m not going to explain how to create a module structure in this post, if you have not created a module before, I would recommend following this Magento “Hello World” tutorial before going any further.
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Recently I had a client who was using a heavily customized implementation of Magento ecommerce, but also needed a full website within it to serve as a B2B resource portal. This portion if the site alone had the potential to grow to hundreds of pages of content. So we made the decision to pull this portion of the site out of Magento and use something more suited towards handling this kind of content better, in comes my personal favorite CMS, Silverstripe.
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This is the third post of “Revamp and Go Mobile,” where I dive into doing just that. I hope to accomplish three things with my website – revamp and make it cool and new, focus on the parts of the site that really matter, and make it mobile, all so that my visitors are happy.

After working on the navigation, I decided to work on the homepage some more. I added the following:

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This is the second post of “Revamp and Go Mobile,” where I dive into doing just that. I hope to accomplish three things with my website – revamp and make it cool and new, focus on the parts of the site that really matter, and make it mobile, all so that my visitors are happy.

I know nothing about making a website mobile friendly, so I’ve decided to work on that last. Over the last week I’ve put my sight on making my site cool, new, and focused (Get it? My sight on site, sorry, it’s late and my Diet Sunkist isn’t kicking in).

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