Magento – Magento 2 configure stock by website

It's not entirely safe:

1. `Mage::helper('customer')->getNamePrefixOptions() delegates to the customer/address helper.

2. In Mage::helper('customer/address')->getConfig() you can see that it does not actually use the website model and it's getConfig() method, but uses a per-request cache, which it sets to the value of the current store or given store object.

Where this would go wrong is imports collections. Once it's set it's tied to the website ID and any subsequent invocations of the method for another store in the same website, would get the wrong value:

// Mage_Customer_Helper_Address
/**
 * Return customer address config value by key and store
 *
 * @param string $key
 * @param Mage_Core_Model_Store|int|string $store
 * @return string|null
 */
public function getConfig($key, $store = null)
{
    $websiteId = Mage::app()->getStore($store)->getWebsiteId();

    if (!isset($this->_config[$websiteId])) {
        $this->_config[$websiteId] = Mage::getStoreConfig('customer/address', $store);
    }
    return isset($this->_config[$websiteId][$key]) ? (string)$this->_config[$websiteId][$key] : null;
}

Aside: getNamePrefixOptions() is used in the Customer/Name widget, but this would go ok in the normal usage, as the store wouldn't switch within a request.

Edit: Not sure why I wrote imports late last night, but it's collections obviously. Think the newsletter, wishlist and other reminder emails and since 1.9.1 also the transactional emails as they're also being grouped now.

Looks like there no easy way for this. I will suggest a method, but it is upto you make it work.

Create 4 domain names points to your server. womenmysite.com, menmysite.com, women.mastersite.com, men.mastersite.com

Create a proxy from womenmysite.com -> women.mastersite.com and another proxy from menmysite.com -> men.mastersite.com. For creating a proxy please refer mod_proxy module for apache http server or you can find similar modules for other web servers. If your server behind any other proxy like firewall or load balancer, try to configure these proxies there itself instead of creating one more layer.

you can set cookie domain as .mastersite.com and store sites as men.mastersite.com and women.mastersite.com. Also, you will face some issue with proxy and Magento authentication system. But I think it can be fixed easily.

Here comes the tricky part. You will manually need to write a PHP script that will synchronize the sessions between two websites. you can either implement this using a cross-domain script include or an iframe. For example for menmysite.com.

://womenmysite.com/sync-session?id=some encrypted data

This encrypted data should contain all the cookies sent to menmysite.com. This script should set the same cookies send to menmysite.com to womenmysite.com.

Also, the similar script should be there for womenmysite.com that links to menmysite.com.

You have to use an invisible iframe too. I have no idea how much tweak required to make this work as I worked with Magento some time ago.