Magento – Magento Multi Store Store Code

magento-1.9multistorestore-view

We want to use one Magento backend for multiple stores and every store have normally 1 store view. We have 2 or more websites with 2 or more store views.

For German, we want to use the store code "de", for English "en" and so on. Now our problem is that every store code can't be used more than one times (is unique). When we get more websites and stores we must find for every a new store code.

Now one URL looks like this:

For a German store view, "mysite.com/deu/" or "mysite.com/de1/" and this is not fine. What can we do to solve this problem with the unique store codes?

Hope you can help me.

Best Answer

here is what I did in a similar case.
Let's say you have 2 websites with 2 store view each. both website have a EN and a DE store view (codes can be anything).

First create 2 folders in the root of your magento install with 2 subfolders each.

website1
- en
- de
website2
- en
- de

Then copy index.php and .htaccess into website1, website1/en, website1/de. Do the same for website2 and its subfolders.

Now edit index.php from all the folders and subfolders like this:

website1/index.php and website2/index.php

replace $mageFilename = MAGENTO_ROOT . '/app/Mage.php'; with $mageFilename = '../app/Mage.php'; and

Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);

with

 Mage::run('website code here for each website', 'website');

Then in the index.php of each of the de|en folders change $mageFilename = MAGENTO_ROOT . '/app/Mage.php'; to $mageFilename = '.././app/Mage.php';

and

Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);

 Mage::run('each store view code here', 'store');

Now remove the Show store codes in url flag.

In System->Configuration->web->unsecure set the these values

Base Skin URL : http://example.com/skin/ instead of {{unsecure_base_url}}skin/
Base Media URL : http://example.com/media/ instead of {{unsecure_base_url}}media/
Base JavaScript URL : http://example.com/js/ instead of {{unsecure_base_url}}js/

Do the same for the secure section if you are using secure urls just put https instead of http.

Now you have to create 2 virtual hosts, one for each website.
The document root for the first website will be website1 folder and for the second one website2.

If you want you can create only one folder website1 but this means that you have to create the en and de folders in the root folder of your magento instance for the second website and your second website has to have the document root, the root of your magento instance.

Related Solutions

CE 1.7.0.2 – How to Update Product Attributes for Multiple Store Views at Once

If you wanted this as a feature you can write a module, and observe the save product event and loop through all the stores and either:

condition based looking for "english" if they are named like that
hardcode the id's
provide a configuration option in the admin to select the english stores.
add an attribute to the store object

Another way to do it as a one off:

<?php

require '../app/Mage.php';

$englishStore = 1; // English Store (the one you want to copy from)
$attribute = "short_description"; // Attribute to copy

foreach (Mage::app()->getWebsites() as $website) {
    foreach ($website->getGroups() as $group) {
        $stores = $group->getStores();
        foreach ($stores as $store) {
            //store object
            //print_r($store->getData());

            // if english found in name or change this so it's hardcoded store id's
            if (strstr($store->getData('name'),"english")) {

                $StoreToUpdateCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
                    ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
                    ->addAttributeToFilter('store_id', $store->getData('store_id'));

                foreach ($StoreToUpdateCollection as $product) {

                    // get the description from the base English store
                    $englishProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->setStoreId($englishStore)->loadByAttribute('sku', $product->getData('sku'));
                    $newValue = $englishProduct->getData($attribute);

                    // update the attributes for the current store for the product ID
                    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_action')->updateAttributes(
                        array($product->getData('id')),
                        array($attribute => $newValue),
                        $store->getData('store_id')
                    );
                }


            }


        }
    }
}

I have not tested the updating part, would suggest trying this on a dev version.

Magento – Products not showing on a multi store view magento site

Go in Catalog -> Manage Categories switch your view to US and see if your products are assigned to the category that you want.
If they are not assigned, do assign them once more and then flush cache, reindex and see what happens.

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Related Solutions

CE 1.7.0.2 – How to Update Product Attributes for Multiple Store Views at Once

Magento – Products not showing on a multi store view magento site

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