Blesta Integration Options

[jwogrady]

I'm exploring my options for integrating Blesta into a website. Here are the options I've considered.

 

OPTION #1*

 

WordPress Integration - A wordpress standalone site acts as a gateway to the Blesta Portal.

 

What's needed to do it right? 

-  Ability to pull product categories, products, and payment links out of Blesta.

-  Ability to share WordPress and account data for Single Sign-on and account management.

 

Possible Approaches:

- Create a Single Sign On Bridge

- Create Wordpress Catalog Module

 

* I assume this would work for any "off the shelf" CMS package.

 

 

OPTION #2

 

Create a fully featured CMS Plugin for Blesta

 

What's needed to do it right?

- ability to build a navigation and page structure within Blesta.

- perhaps a separate module for a blog

 

 

OPTION #3

 

Create a custom Blesta Wrapper site.

 

-  assumes blesta is used for user management and permission roles.

-  assumes blesta is the product database

 

What's needed to do it right?

-  need a non-customer user role.  (I'm sure this already exists)

-  perhaps use OAuth account creation and authentication so folks can create an account and sign in with Twitter.

 

I'm not sure #3 is substantially different from option #1.

 

These are the options I'm exploring.  Would love to hear feedback on what's out there already and strategies that are working for you.

[Michael]

Option 1: Can be done but you'll need a plugin for the login to use the Shared Login plugin to connect to Wordpress and Blesta.

 

You can hire a integration company to make blesta look like your wordpress.

if you want wordpress + blesta together you will need to use the Blesta API (what we do to grab prices etc, and that could be costly.

 

I recommend ModulesBakery if you would like help doing that.

[jwogrady]

@Licensecart, ModulesBakery is a good lead.  A google searched also turned up these guys who are trying to build a WP bridge....

 

http://www.alltoolkits.com/toolprofile/wordpress-blesta-bridge

 

I'm really trying to get off  WP and the cPanel/php stack.  Developing WP plugins for WP seems to me to be a step in the wrong direction... but may indeed be faster.

 

Do you see any substantial differences or advantages to #3?   I'm looking for you Python/Django, Python/Flask, Ruby on Rails, or perhaps even you Meteor guys that figured out how to coexist in php/whm/cpanel world.

[Michael]

@Licensecart, ModulesBakery is a good lead.  A google searched also turned up these guys who are trying to build a WP bridge....

 

http://www.alltoolkits.com/toolprofile/wordpress-blesta-bridge

 

I'm really trying to get off  WP and the cPanel/php stack.  Developing WP plugins for WP seems to me to be a step in the wrong direction... but may indeed be faster.

 

Do you see any substantial differences or advantages to #3?   I'm looking for you Python/Django, Python/Flask, Ruby on Rails, or perhaps even you Meteor guys that figured out how to coexist in php/whm/cpanel world.

 

That's good I've not tried it though: http://www.blesta.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2657-blesta-bridgealphad-download/?hl=alltoolkit

 

I don't use any of them and only use InterWorx, PHP 5.4, MySQL.

[serge]

think also at joomla, there is existing integration with blesta

 

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/miscellaneous/misc-bridges/j-blesta

[jwogrady]

The option I decided to pursue is to create a wrapper site around Blesta using Python and Flask.  If there is any interest out there on this approach please get in touch.  Would love to collaborate.