I want customers in the wholesale customer group to see our wholesale store, and I want everyone else to see the default retail store. I tried the solution found here, and it successfully showed customers the correct store, but when I tried to change the theme for the wholesale store, it wasn't finding my theme and kept falling back to base/default.
After digging through the core code, I came up with a solution of my own which appears to work just the way I want it to, but I want to make sure that I'm not doing something that will cause problems that I'm not seeing. I also would be interested in better solutions to my problem if anyone has one.
I copied app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php to app/code/local/Mage/Core/Model/App.php and modified only the function _checkGetStore.
Original:
/**
* Check get store
*
* @return Mage_Core_Model_App
*/
protected function _checkGetStore($type)
{
if (empty($_GET)) {
return $this;
}
/**
* @todo check XML_PATH_STORE_IN_URL
*/
if (!isset($_GET['___store'])) {
return $this;
}
$store = $_GET['___store'];
if (!isset($this->_stores[$store])) {
return $this;
}
$storeObj = $this->_stores[$store];
if (!$storeObj->getId() || !$storeObj->getIsActive()) {
return $this;
}
/**
* prevent running a store from another website or store group,
* if website or store group was specified explicitly in Mage::run()
*/
$curStoreObj = $this->_stores[$this->_currentStore];
if ($type == 'website' && $storeObj->getWebsiteId() == $curStoreObj->getWebsiteId()) {
$this->_currentStore = $store;
}
elseif ($type == 'group' && $storeObj->getGroupId() == $curStoreObj->getGroupId()) {
$this->_currentStore = $store;
}
elseif ($type == 'store') {
$this->_currentStore = $store;
}
if ($this->_currentStore == $store) {
$store = $this->getStore($store);
if ($store->getWebsite()->getDefaultStore()->getId() == $store->getId()) {
$this->getCookie()->delete(Mage_Core_Model_Store::COOKIE_NAME);
} else {
$this->getCookie()->set(Mage_Core_Model_Store::COOKIE_NAME, $this->_currentStore, true);
}
}
return $this;
}
Modified:
/**
* Check get store
*
* @return Mage_Core_Model_App
*/
protected function _checkGetStore($type)
{
$store = "default";
if(Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn())
{
$groupId = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId();
$group = Mage::getModel('customer/group')->load($groupId);
if($group->getCode() == "Wholesale")
{
$store = "wholesale_en";
}
}
if (!isset($this->_stores[$store])) {
return $this;
}
$storeObj = $this->_stores[$store];
if (!$storeObj->getId() || !$storeObj->getIsActive()) {
return $this;
}
/**
* prevent running a store from another website or store group,
* if website or store group was specified explicitly in Mage::run()
*/
$curStoreObj = $this->_stores[$this->_currentStore];
if ($type == 'website' && $storeObj->getWebsiteId() == $curStoreObj->getWebsiteId()) {
$this->_currentStore = $store;
}
elseif ($type == 'group' && $storeObj->getGroupId() == $curStoreObj->getGroupId()) {
$this->_currentStore = $store;
}
elseif ($type == 'store') {
$this->_currentStore = $store;
}
if ($this->_currentStore == $store) {
$store = $this->getStore($store);
if ($store->getWebsite()->getDefaultStore()->getId() == $store->getId()) {
$this->getCookie()->delete(Mage_Core_Model_Store::COOKIE_NAME);
} else {
$this->getCookie()->set(Mage_Core_Model_Store::COOKIE_NAME, $this->_currentStore, true);
}
}
return $this;
}
I removed the check for the variable ___store in GET requests because I don't want the wholesale store to be accessed that way. Will this do everything that I want? I want the wholesale customer group to always see only the wholesale store, and I want everyone else to always see only the retail store (default). And I don't want any method of switching between stores other than logging in as a wholesale customer.
Even if this solution is an effective one, I am interested in a solution that is more upgrade friendly. I couldn't use Magento to rewrite this particular class, so now I'll have to take extra steps to make sure it gets updated during magento updates.
EDIT:
This change has caused these errors every time the magento cron runs:
2014-02-14T11:00:01+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: strpos(): Empty needle in /###/lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php on line 504
2014-02-14T11:00:01+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: strpos(): Empty needle in /###/lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php on line 510
2014-02-14T11:00:01+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent in /###/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php on line 123
2014-02-14T11:00:01+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent in /###/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php on line 123
Also, another person was unable to access the magento admin until I reverted this change. He said that clicking login just brought him back to the login page with no error message. I was able to log in to admin using the same credentials (from a different IP address).
