Just fishing around at the moment. Been a very long time since I posted here, but I was wondering who would be interested in a Magento Commerce / vBulletin bridge? It has the following features:
Gives customers ability to sign up to forum during Magento customer registration and vice versa.
The ability to add their registration to the forum at a later date in user's account settings in either vB or MComm.
Edit some vBulletin settings within Magento's customer control panel and vice versa.
Settings edited on either Magento or vBulletin changes other settings.
Ability to ban user on one or both sides (spammers, fraud, etc.)
Customer groups on Magento align with groups on vBulletin, and adding/deleting/editing groups affect both (be careful with this) eg. VIP status
Super admin on vBulletin = super admin on Magento and both backends.
Frequent posting credits for Magento store = more participation on forum/high "active" users (abusers can easily have these credits revoked). These credits must also be "approved" by staff to avoid people ripping you off by posting garbage.
Customers can have their wishlists visible in their vBulletin profile if they wish.
Ability to post products and specials directly into forum posts with add to cart option in forum post.
Cart contents stay in cart (lock in at the top of the page) even when on the forum.
Logging in/out logs you in/out of both forum and store. For security reasons, users must log into each admin panels seperately.
Still adding new features as I go ...
It's very chunky and requires both vBulletin and Magento to be installed on the same database, and requires Magento Professional or Enterprise and SSL, but it works OK so far. It's in alpha dev stage now, but anyone think it's worth cleaning up and releasing here? Would anyone use it?
11-02-2011, 02:45 PM
Integration bridge for Magento & vBulletin
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