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====Integrating Joomdle with Hikashop 1.5.4 or higher====

<span class="alert">This "feature" is provided as is and no warranties, guarantees or otherwise, expressed or implied, are provided. Joomdle and individuals associated with its development and support shall not be held responsible for any loss of data, reputation, and/or money in any currency whatsoever. It is strongly advised that this "feature" be installed, configured, tested and proven working in a test environment prior to being implemented in a production site.</span>


====Limitations====

* Disabling or hiding a course in Moodle does not automatically unpublish the Hikashop product in Joomla. You should unpublish the course first in Joomla, then disable / hide the course in Moodle.

====Features====

* Allows webmasters to publish Moodle courses inside a Hikashop storefront
* Allows Buyers to purchase a Moodle course like any other product offered through Hikashop
* Automatically enrolls the Buyer in the selected course(s).
* Sends a "customised" email to the Buyer confirming their purchase / provide instructions on gaining access.

====Hikashop Configuration====

''Ensure you have Hikashop installed and working properly before you begin.''

======Create a new Hikashop Product Category======

Under the Hikashop Menu, create a new Category to group your Moodle courses. Take note of the Category's ID, as you will it later to enter into Joomdle Component configuration.


====Joomdle Configuration====

======Moodle======

The package enrol_joomdle.zip contains a new enrolment method for Moodle.

To install, unzip enrol_joomdle.zip into a temp folder and copy the files to the moodle/enrol folder on your web server (you should have a new folder called moodle/enrol/joomdle now).

Enter Moodle as an administrator.

A new enrol method, called Joomdle, should appear in Courses/Enrolments. Enable it and set it as default.

[[Image:r023_moodle_enroll_1.jpg|800px]]

Click Edit to configure its options:

* Default cost: The default cost to enroll in courses
* Currency: Your preferred default currency for courses
* Enrol message: A message to show to the user if he tries to access the course without having paid.  You can include the string BUY_COURSE_URL to show a link the the product page in Tienda.

======Joomla======

To start using Joomdle's Hikashop integration, enable it in Joomdle Component Configuration, by selecting Hikashop in the Shop Integration option.
You can also select Hikashop as the Additional Data Source, so billing info will be used to fill user details in Moodle.

[[Image:r023_vm_int_joomdle_config_1.jpg]]

Enter the Hikashop Product Category ID for which you wish Moodle's courses to appear. This means you will not need to manually create Hikashop products.

<span class="info">Moodle courses will automatically be created in Hikashop and Published.</span>

In addition, you can configure Joomdle to send out an email to the buyer once the payment has been completed successfully.

* Either enter the Subject and Body of the email you wish to send; or
* Enter '''''COURSE_NAME''''' and '''''COURSE_URL''''' for Joomdle to "grab" the values from Moodle.

You will also need to install the Joomdlehikashop plugin, present in other-joomla-packages folder, in joomdle package.

<span class="alert">This "feature" is provided as is and no warranties, guarantees or otherwise, expressed or implied, are provided. Joomdle and individuals associated with its development and support shall not be held responsible for any loss of data, reputation, and/or money in any currency whatsoever. It is strongly advised that this "feature" be installed, configured, tested and proven working in a test environment connected to Paypal's Sandbox development environment prior to being implemented in a production site.</span>