JFusion - JFusion Feature Overview

Supercharge your Joomla website

Do you want to expand your Joomla website with another software, but don't want your users to register twice?

JFusion will take care of user creation, synchronisation and dual login across multiple softwares. You select a master software for all user management and JFusion automatically updates the "slave" softwares.

Great Performance:

JFusion is extremely efficient with server resources, it is actually impossible to distinguish benchmark results from the Joomla default installation and a setup that runs JFusion with direct integration.

The JFusion framework is 60 kb and about 5-20kb is loaded for each enabled JFusion plugin. The amount of SQL queries is increased by 6 for the average setup. Joomla by default loads 30+ queries and 6 Mb of code.JFusion is used on large sites with excellent results and no performance loss.

Configuration Magic:

Save yourself the hassle of looking up your database settings. Our wizard can configure your JFusion plugin automatically.

We know how much time and hard work it takes to find all the correct configuration details for your software. So we decieded that we'd do it all for you. The Wizard pulls the necessary configuration details out of thin air (or rather, your config file) so you need not worry about finding them yourself.

One Login For Them All.

Dual login saves your users time by logging them into Joomla and any integrated softwares.

To really give the feeling of complete integration between Joomla and your other softwares to your users, Dual login allows them to seamlessly login to all of your enabled softwares with one username, one password and one click.

Simplicity - The tool for Success

JFusion's Administrative Interface is designed to help you do what you need to... Easily.

JFusion's Administrative Interface has been refined through a process of Trial and Error meaning your experience is as friendly as possible. The easy-to-use design allows anyone to get started with JFusion without hassle.

AJAX User Sync Gives Your Freedom Back.

JFusion includes a powerful AJAX based User Sync tool to help you manage users with ease.

With periodical progress updates, no timeouts and an easy to use interface, JFusion makes handling of your user accounts across multiple software's simple.

Free Support

Our support forums are an excellent place to look for information or to ask for help.

Please make sure that you read the JFusion Documentation and FAQs, before posting on the Support Forum. Please remember that this is free software and that eveyone here is a volunteer.

Never Bridge again -> JFusion them:

After trying out JFusion, You will never use an ordinary bridge again, and will only use JFusion to fully integrate applications. JFusion has the most features and will always be free.

Other bridges lack essential features, for instance some do not even have a usersync function, does not work with converted boards, and can not handle user conflicts or update activation status between softwares. Other bridges are expensive and only JFusion can provide a good user integration at this stage.

How does JFusion work?

JFusion does its magic with the use of its JFusion user and authentication plugins. These plugins allow the complete customisation of the Joomla login behaviour without any core hacks to Joomla. When multiple softwares are integrated there needs to be one "master" software that controls all user management actions. When a user logs in to Joomla, JFusion will validate the user based on the user details in the master software. If a user is succesfully authenticated, JFusion will automatically create or update the user in all of the slave softwares.

Bi-directional User Sync

JFusion can import users into Joomla as well as export users from Joomla into external softwares.

Dual Login

JFusion will also create sessions for all softwares, in order for users to be logged into all softwares at once. This allows users to switch between softwares without having to login again. Please note that your softwares must run on the same domain or subdomain in order for this to work.

Visual Intergration

Another important aspect is that you want these softwares to look like they are running inside Joomla itself. We have a couple of options on how to achieve this: 1) direct link with template modifications of the external software, 2) the use of an iframe wrapper and 3) frameless visual integration that grabs the output of the external software and displays it inside your Joomla template. Which option you chose depends on how big your site is and how good you are in modifying html/css templates. For more information visit our documentation section.

What does JFusion not do at this moment?

No modifications to core file are made in either Joomla or the integrated software. This is great as you can upgrade your softwares without having to reconfigure JFusion. However, this also means that the login behaviour of the external software is not changed. For instance, if a user logs into phpBB3 directly it will not be logged into Joomla, as no changes are made to the phpBB3 software itself. You can hide the login box in the external software if this bothers you

Feature comparison between plugins

Here is an overview of the the JFusion plugins that are currently in the JFusion core package.

Feature	Joomla	phpBB	SMF	vBulletin	Magento	Moodle	myBB
Supported Version	1.5.x	3.0.x	1.1.x	3.7.x	1.1.x	1.9.x	1.4.x
Master function
Slave function
User import into Joomla
User export from Joomla
Resolve user conflicts automatically
Dual Login from Joomla
Avatars and PMs in login module
Activity Module
Wrapper integration in Joomla
Frameless integration in Joomla
Login checker in component