By tacallian on

I'm very inexperienced with webdesign and have been building an online store with the Magento shopping cart (I love open source, cause well... tis free). I sell greetings cards. Fairly modest little online business. Magento has it's own CMS within itself, but what I was curious about is does anyone know how difficult or easy it would be to use Drupal forum in the background linked from my main page? I've just been pushed away from phpnuke and phpbb by my host (says they're insecure) so I've been looking for another solution.

Any help would be fantastic.

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bwv’s picture

bwv commented

I'd think it would be easy to set up. Create a new subdirectory off root, install drupal, activate the forum module, and create a link from your main site to the drupal forum page. You will have to decide whether you want it open to everyone or whether you want people to create accounts first.

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walloon commented

Given all the community and modules behind the Drupal Ubercart suite of modules, you might consider moving to Drupal for your store as well. Otherwise you may find yourself with two sets of logins, two different themes, and so forth, without a fair amount of custom work, with your store in Magento and your forum in Drupal.

Hope that helps

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sovarn commented

also magento takes a lot of resources and may not work on shared hosting, whereas drupal can.