Integrating PrestaShop into a wider custom site

[Ryan Paddy]

Hey folks,

 

I'm developing a site that will have both a shop and some other functionality that I'll develop in PHP/MySQL (preferably on a framework like CodeIgniter or Yii).

 

I'd like to use something pre-built like PrestaShop for the store aspect, but I don't want my users to have to log into both PS and my system, I'd like them to be seamlessly integrated.

 

Any thoughts on the best way to approach this?

 

I'm wondering if I can have my system and PS sitting together on the server (probably using separate databases), and when someone registers or logs into my system I mirror that in PS (i.e. when they register in my system, I create a parallel user account for them in PS, etc)? Perhaps I could write a PS module to connect to from my system that would create accounts, log them in, etc. on demand?

 

I'd prefer not to do it just by extending PrestaShop (because I'd like to have my own independent code base), but I'm not discounting that option.

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan