https://popmanga.theretailerplace.com . I know its ugly and not user friendly or all the other stuff the gurus say, but its necessary evil do to the nature of my business. I sell books and the product catalogue/hosting is more than Magento and most servers can handle. Plus reintegration of the product database into a another system would cost me thousands of dollars in man power and would all over be a ugly experience. What I would like to do. Is use Magento create a small splashy website on a select group of books. Highly Niche and then link them to my products on my ugly site for sale conversion and payment processing. What I would like to happen is when I click the product you would be redirected to the product of my choosing. Currently my link hierchy on the old site is built on ISBNs and I know how to make the links but I need a place to stick the code to make Magento go to my other database. Any clues?
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The content and all the payment gateway is on the old ugly site and secured with https and some of the best encryption available I just want to link the products. I realize this will be altering Magnetos code but frankly that’s what I want to do in the first place. I’m looking for what will be the best file to edit to change into a reroute and for people who have done something similar before. I know that a great many folks are using this software to sell amazon affiliate stuff and I want to do it with my own products. So someone has already pulled it off and the code exists somewhere.
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I Need To Link My Magento Product To A Outside Database. I’ve Seen It Done Now How Did They Do It?
Posted on August 19, 2011.
Does https://theretailerplace.com/ belong to you? This looks like where you are using Magento from.
If theretailerplace.com does not belong to you, there is no way you can alter Magento code. You simply won’t have that kind of access. (If you do then security is not as tight as you think.)
As well, if theretailerplace.com does not belong to you, chances are extremely good that you will not be able to connect to their database remotely – or from another site off of their servers. Some hosts would deem this a security risk. You would have to contact them to see if this is allowed. They may have some kind of solution for your problem. No harm in asking.
Just a sidenote: You may very well lose customers if they click on a link and wind up going to something else. They will feel they’re being duped. At the very least it will confuse them and they’ll go in search for what they really want on another site.
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That clarified it some. You should get better answers. If you’re familiar with wordpress, have you considered http://shopperpress.com/? You’ll have a pro template. It’s not free but one of the cheaper options out there. I use another product of theirs and it worked out great.