Contao CMS Connector for Akeneo by EIKONA Media
Description
Connect your Contao CMS with Akeneo's PIM software and import products, attributes, categories from Akeneo to your website, landing pages or any other web-based product presentation. The Contao-Akeneo connector links the Isotope eCommerce extension for Contao via interface with the product information management system of Akeneo.
Features
Out of the box, the following data can be exported from Akeneo to Contao CMS:
- Products
- Categories
- Attributes
- Images
- Product families
- Cross-Selling-Articles
The export is performed automatically and synchronises changes in Akeneo with Contao according to the configured synchronisation time.
Contact and Support
Simply contact us to learn more about the integration possibilities and benefits of this connector. We can also arrange a free web session to show you the connector live.
- Tel.: +49 (0)9381 71778-0
- E-Mail: hello@eikona-media.de
- Contact: Get in contact
Documentation
Installation - Getting Started
The connector is a private PHP package that can be installed in a Contao project (version 4.4 or higher) using composer. To do this, you have to enter a repository named by EIKONA Media in the composer.json of the project.
Example:
{
"repositories": [{
"type": "composer",
"url": "https://packages.eikona-media.de" }]
}
Afterwards, you can install the package "Akeneo Connector" via the Contao manager (see: https:// extensions.contao.org/?p=eikona-media%2Fcontao-isotope-akeneo-connector) or you can execute the following command via the console:
php composer.phar require eikona-media/contao-isotope-akeneo-tessa-connector
If not already installed, the store extension Isotope will be installed automatically during the installation. Since for the product import from Akeneo the data structure of this extension is used!
Configuration
Connection settings
The configuration of the connector connection is done in the Contao backend via System > Settings.

Alternatively you can add the settings to config/config.yml or config/parameters.yml with the following parameters.
Some parameters are easier to maintain via the backend!

Add category page
The Contao page structure is used to import the categories. However, you have to define the root node in the page tree.
To do this, you need to add a page or folder in the Contao backend via the menu item Site structure (for this you need the extension Folder page) and activate the option 'akeneo root category':

In addition, the language must be defined in the page structure at the starting point of a website as a five-digit code analogous to the akeneo settings - e.g. for English en-US or for German de-DE .
Cronjob for the import
A cronjob with the following path must be created to process the queue:
php vendor/bin/contao-console eikona-media:queue:execute
It is also advisable to perform a complete import once a night. However, this is only recommended for a manageable number of products!
php vendor/bin/contao-console eikona-media:akeneo:all:import
Start import
Once you have made the necessary settings, you can start the import for the first time. The import can be started either from the console or from the Contao backend.
The order of the imports must be respected due to the chicken and egg problem, so we recommend the import via the console!
Import via console
The following commands exist for import via the console:
Command for entire import
eikona-media:akeneo:all:import
Imports all data from Akeneo
Individual import commands
- eikona-media:akeneo:product:import
- Imports the products from Akeneo, including attribute values
- eikona-media:akeneo:category:import
- Imports the categories into the page tree
- eikona-media:akeneo:attribute:import
- Imports the attributes from Akeneo, with the correct matched types into Contao
- eikona-media:akeneo:product:family:import
- Imports the product families from Akeneo, into the product types in Contao/Isotope, takes over the attributes
- eikona-media:akeneo:category:related:import
- Imports the associations from Akeneo into Contao
- eikona-media:akeneo:product:related:import
- Relates the association products from Akeneo to the isotope products
The import for all data is also executable via the backend - at the respective entities is an akeneo import button. Only the product:related:import is a bit of an exception, this is only accessible via a linked product record, but imports all product links, instead of those of the selected product!
Reset isotope command
CAUTION: Do not execute in productive mode!
- eikona-media:isotope:reset
- Empties all isotope tables and empties the folder isotope as well as the set asset import folder.
Import via the Contao backend
In the Contao backend, there are a few necessary places to trigger an akeneo import.

The following order is necessary for the first import:
-
categories (Layout > Site structure)
-
attributes (Isotope > Store configuration > Attributes)
-
product families (Isotope > Store configuration > product types)
-
products (Isotope > Product management)
-
related categories (Isotope > Store configuration > Related categories)
-
related products (Isotope > Product management > at product "related products" - imports
all!)
For better performance each import is first queued in the backend, so that the actual process can be handled asynchronously by the system.
CAUTION: For the processing of the queue, the cronjob must be created!
Configure Isotope
For the configuration of Isotope we refer to the official manual of the extension:
https://isotopeecommerce.org/en/manual.html