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We are rebuilding web sites and developing solutions for an organisation that has a number of sub-agencies, for example a youth group, a justice lobbying group, and an agency dealing with refugees and migrant workers. The parent group and each of these agencies currently has a Joomla web site, and the organisation has fair degree of in-house familiarity with Joomla. We would like to develop a centralised civicrm database for them, mainly for the purposes of donation management and email newsletter distribution (though it will likely also be used for events or perhaps course sign up)

I see some kind of instructions for doing something like this for Drupal. I don't see any for Joomla, but we definitely would want to link pages back into the various web sites. Has anyone done this? Is it feasible? How much work is involved?

Thanks

Steve Jacobs
Ireland

Hi
Thanks for your quick response. Would this mean that we would need to have the code installalled on each of the Joomla sites, all pointing to the same database, or is there some way to tie things together with one civicrm code install?

Hi,

I know this posting is a little older, but I was wondering if there is an update.  I'm getting ready to [hopefully] go through the same exercise - two related joomla sites, but one instance of civicrm shared between the two.

Thanks,
David

colivia:

nothing has changed with this since the start of the thread. Since this is starting to be a more common request, would be great if you can experiment and document what you did and hopefully what worked for you

lobo

Just a clarification - there is a drupal multisite module - this implements hierarchical permissions. (it doesn't use drupal specific features - the hooks are pure civi). Each site is a separate domain & has an entry in civicrm_domain table

There is also the option to have several sites running of the same civicrm database with different front-end sites & different settings (e.g payment processor, location settings, currency). In this case there are different entries in civicrm_domain but the permissioning isn't implements (I guess we should call this multi-domain). I would expect that you only need to edit your civicrm.settings.php to implement multi-domain

Thanks for the added information related to performing this task with Drupal. I also have a similar use case, but the problem is that all my current sites use Joomla. I say 'problem' because it seems that CiviCRM has more integration with Drupal than Joomla currently. If this is wrong please let me know.

If it is accurate, then does this better integration also apply to the most recent versions of Joomla and Drupal as well? I think it would be more likely that I could get these sites upgraded to a more recent version of Joomla than to have them jump over to a new CMS, but all this is in the very early stages of design and planning... anything is possible. I'm mainly interested in what is best for CiviCRM at this point and then we'll go from there.

EDIT: Looks like the following post in another discussion answered the question well for the current versions: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,20071.msg83875.html#msg83875