Question

how can I redirect the customers after logout to default store view in magento?
In logout I redirect them another store view.

Answer 1

Unfortunately there’s not a convenient event hook to manipulate the logout redirect location.

Mage_Customer_AccountController::logoutAction() sets a redirect to ::logoutSuccessAction() on the response object after the customer_logout event is dispatched, and it’s the rendering of the customer/logout.phtml template which uses PHP to set echo a javascript param to redirect to the homepage with no OOB possibility to pass an arg for an alternate JS-based redirect.

I think the cleanest solution would be to observe controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_logout, grab the controller object, and overwrite the location header using the response object’s setRedirectWithCookieCheck() method:

public function logoutRedirect($obs)
{
    $obs->getControllerAction()
        ->setRedirectWithCookieCheck(/* your URL param(s) */);
}