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As Joomla! is the prime CMS nowadays and Magento the prime e-commerce solution, people wonder if it is possible to build a bridge between Joomla! and Magento. There are various approaches that can be used to build such a bridge, but some are unwanted and others impossible. In the article I will lay them out, as I've been working on such a bridge myself.

The Joomla! core team must somehow gained access to my computer. Already for sometime I was working on an extra PHP-library for Joomla! extensions that allowed me to build HTML forms quick and fast. As I am nearing completion on this work, I was amazed to see that the Joomla! core team had almost finished work on a new Joomla! forms API within the Joomla! framework.

Some time ago I was developing a Drupal 6 module which enhances the default Drupal passwords with a salt. This did not only involve a change in the password-storage mechanism, but also in the authentencation procedure. But somewhere in the code I made a mistake by returning TRUE where it should return FALSE instead. A bad programming error which could have had fargoing consequences if it was not caught in the act.

Drupal 7 is on the way. It will ship with a lot of new features like an integrated WYSIWYG-editor, automatic upgrades and CCK as a core-module, but the biggest improvement seems to be usability. But it will only support PHP version 5. Does Drupal 7 take a different approach towards OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)? Let's have a look at Drupals approach towards objects and classes.