*Completely* Disabling Frontend Customer Registration

Question

So I have read a few threads which all go into detail of removing the create account login button, hiding the content, and even creating a mini extension to remove such activity (http://importantmagento.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-disable-user-registration-in_22.html)

I have done all of these, however still adding customer/account/create/ to the end of the webstore still persists with a create account page. Any ideas what I can do here? I have a webstore in which we manually create each account, however it appears someone has found the loophole and persists in creating an account. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can simply use event controller_action_predispatch_customer_account_create to disable registration.

Register the event-observer

<events>
    <controller_action_predispatch_customer_account_create>
        <observers>
            <magepsycho_customer_controller_action_predispatch>
                <type>singleton</type>
                <class>magepsycho_customer/observer</class>
                <method>controllerActionPredispatchCustomerAccountCreate</method>
            </magepsycho_customer_controller_action_predispatch>
        </observers>
    </controller_action_predispatch_customer_account_create>
</events>

Implement the Observer Model

<?php

/**
 * @category   MagePsycho
 * @package    MagePsycho_Customer
 * @author     [email protected]
 * @website    http://www.magepsycho.com
 * @license    http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php  Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
 */
class MagePsycho_Customer_Model_Observer
{
    public function controllerActionPredispatchCustomerAccountCreate(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
    {   
        Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('customer/account/login'))->sendResponse();
        exit();
    }
}

That's all. Don't forget to remove Register links from wherever it's visible :)

Answer 2

You can add custom URL Rewrite Rules in admin panel as well. check below example to redirect customer/account/create to customer/account/login