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Design/Development•26 August 2009

Interspire Email Marketer and Joomla AEC Subscription Manager Integration

We’ve finished developing an integration between the popular AEC Subscription Manager for the Joomla content management system and the cutting edge Interspire Email Marketer. Using AEC’s Micro Integrations we have developed the process for when a user joins a subscription plan they are added to a contact list of choice and when they expire are removed from the contact list. With this integration it now means one of the most popular and feature rich newsletter systems can be used in a fully automated way with the leading Joomla content management system’s AEC Subscription component.

Design/Development•11 July 2009

Benefits of RSS Feeds – All Your Favourite News and Content in One Place

RSS Feeds are a very useful and powerful feature of websites that are still little understood by website owners and internet users. Many website owners I meet have either not heard of them or do not know the benefit they could bring to their online website or blog or for their own benefit it keeping up to date with news and information online. This blog hopes to explain what RSS Feeds are the benefits to you either as a website owner or as a website reader for keeping up to date with information on line.

Design/Development•31 May 2009

Interspire Email Marketer – Integrating with Other Systems

Interspire Email Marketer (IEM), in my opinion, is the best newsletter system on the market that can be downloaded and installed on your own server. At least, I cannot find any other that comes close to it’s features, and I have looked hard. It does have one drawback though, and that’s the system API does not support integrating it into third party applications so subscribers can update their newsletter preferences from within another system. Interspire stated they don’t provide support on technical aspects of the API, so I have had to create my own API functions until they realise the benefit of this and write one themselves. This blog gives you a quick overview of the files to edit.

Design/Development•29 May 2009

Adding Dynamic Joomla Modules and Content to Other Websites

Just after publishing my latest blog, Integrating Joomla and Zencart (Sort Of) Using CURL and Standalone Templates, I realised that this method can be used to show Joomla modules on just about any website that you can add code to. The blog is mainly about Zencart because that’s what I use it for, but I realised if you have any other website you can access the code for, then you can follow these instructions to add Joomla modules to your website.

Design/Development•29 May 2009

Integrating Joomla and Zencart (Sort Of) Using CURL and Standalone Templates

I’ve developed quite a few Joomla and Zencart sites, some clients taking both together for their website. Joomla being great for the website CMS, and Zencart great for the shopping cart. The problem is, no complete, working integration exists between them. None that I have found anyway. A couple have been written and are work in progress in my mind, but still lacking in fundamental functionality. So the website ends up clearly as two separate systems to the website visitor which is not ideal. So I have spent some time trying to think of a way to integrate the two together and have come up with what looks to be a good solution… CURL.

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