Question

Situation right now:

I’ve got a live-system and its running very well.
I DO NOT have a testing system.

Our live-system is a multi-store with several storeviews on one website.

PROBLEM:

I need to to add one more storeview and work on that within that livesystem. How can I restrict access to this storeview, so that no customer, whether logged in or not, can see this store? Is this even possible?

I need just an admin (me) to access this storeview.

Sure, I could disable all storeswitcher in the other live-stores but I don’t think, this would be a nice solution to my problem. 🙂

Answer 1

If you do not want to show up currently edited store (view) on your language dropdown select field, do the following:

1. Add a new customer-group called “admins” to your shop and remember the id which appears in the list.

2. If not already done, add a new customer for the admin and assign it to the just created customer-group

3. Go to system->store-view and click on the link in the StoreView Name – column which you dont want to show up on the frontend and klick it, you’ll see the StoreView id in the url /index.php/admin/system_store/editStore/store_id/3/key/, remember it

4. Now edit the file: app/design/frontend/default/your_shop/template/page/switch/languages.phtml

from:

<?php if(count($this->getStores())>1): ?>
<div class="form-language">
    <label for="select-language"><?php echo $this->__('Your Language:') ?></label>
    <select id="select-language" title="<?php echo $this->__('Your Language') ?>" onchange="window.location.href=this.value">
    <?php foreach ($this->getStores() as $_lang): ?>
        <?php $_selected = ($_lang->getId() == $this->getCurrentStoreId()) ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ?>
        <option value="<?php echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl() ?>"<?php echo $_selected ?>><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_lang->getName()) ?></option>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </select>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

to:

<?php 
// StoreView-Ids we dont want to show on frontend
$stores = array(3);
// Set admin group id with access to the above storeviews
$frontendAdminGroupId = 5; 
// Get current user group id
$currentGroupId = $this->helper('customer')->getCurrentCustomer()->group_id;
?>
<?php if(count($this->getStores())>1): ?>
<div class="form-language">
    <label for="select-language"><?php echo $this->__('Your Language:') ?></label>
    <select id="select-language" title="<?php echo $this->__('Your Language') ?>" onchange="window.location.href=this.value">
    <?php foreach ($this->getStores() as $_lang): ?>   
        <?php foreach ($stores as $_adminStore) : ?>            
            <?php /* Admin Store! */?>
            <?php if($_adminStore == $_lang->getId() ) : ?>
                <?php if($currentGroupId == $frontendAdminGroupId) : ?> 
                    <?php $_selected = ($_lang->getId() == $this->getCurrentStoreId()) ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ?>
                    <option value="<?php echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl() ?>"<?php echo $_selected ?>><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_lang->getName()) ?></option>
                <?php endif; ?>
            <?php else: ?>
            <?php /* Normal User! */?>
                 <?php $_selected = ($_lang->getId() == $this->getCurrentStoreId()) ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ?>
                <option value="<?php echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl() ?>"<?php echo $_selected ?>><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_lang->getName()) ?></option>
            <?php endif; ?>
        <?php endforeach; ?>    
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </select>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

you also have to edit the checkout and any other part of magento which shows up a select field for the store view, that’s just a half solution. good luck 🙂