Magento 1.8 – Programmatically Setting a Customer’s Website ID

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Could someone please advise why when adding a customer via an external script the website and store values are ignored and the customer is always assigned to "admin" and not to "main website".

I only have 1 website and 1 store within my Magento instance and each has an id of 1

My code is below:

    $customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer");
    $customer   ->setWebsiteId(1)
                ->setStore(1)
                ->setFirstname('John')
                ->setLastname('Smith')
                ->setEmail('john@smith.com')
                ->setPassword('password')
                ->setGroupId('1');
    try{
        $customer->save();
    }
    catch (Exception $e) {
        Zend_Debug::dump($e->getMessage());
    }

Best Answer

Instead of using setStore() you could have use setStoreId()

$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer');

$email = 'john@smith.com';
$storeId = 1;

$website_id = Mage::getModel('core/store')->load($storeId)->getWebsiteId();
$customer->setWebsiteId($website_id);
$customer->setStoreId($storeId);
...

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Magento 1.8 Grouped Products – Resources to Create Programmatically

The following code worked perfectly for me to create Grouped product with it's associate products. Hope this will help someone to create grouped products programmatically.

public function createGroupedProduct()
    {
        $sku = 'AL108';
        $title = 'my test product';
        $description = 'this is a description about the product...';

        $product = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Product();

        $product->setSku($sku.'-grouped');
        $product->setAttributeSetId(63); // put your attribute set id here.
        $product->setTypeId('grouped');
        $product->setName($title);
        $product->setCategoryIds(array(35)); // put your category ids here
        $product->setWebsiteIDs(array(1,2,3));// put your website ids here
        $product->setDescription($description);
        $product->setShortDescription($description);
        $product->setPrice(1000);
        $product->setWeight(200);
        $product->setVisibility(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_BOTH);
        $product->setStatus(1);
        $product->setTaxClassId(0); 
        $product->setStockData(array(
                                    'is_in_stock'             => 1,
                                    'manage_stock'            => 0,
                                    'use_config_manage_stock' => 1
                                    ));

        try {
// Save the grouped product.
            $product->save();       
            $group_product_id = $product->getId();

// You need to create an array which contains the associate product ids.
            $simpleProductId[0] = 1483;
            $simpleProductId[1] = 1484;
            $simpleProductId[2] = 1485;
                $simpleProductId[3] = 1486;
            $simpleProductId[4] = 1487;

            $products_links = Mage::getModel('catalog/product_link_api');

// Get grouped product id.
            $group_product_id = $product->getId();

// Map each associate product with the grouped product.
            foreach($simpleProductId as $id){
                $products_links->assign ("grouped",$group_product_id,$id);
            }

        } catch (Exception $ex) {
            echo $ex->getMessage();
        }

    }

Magento Multisite Domain Switching – Automatically Switch Customers to Different Website

First you need to find a way to identify "preferred" website of the customer. The one you need to redirect to.
You can do that by adding a dropdown customer attribute that has options the websites, or use the customer attribute website_id.
Let's use the website_id attribute for now.

You need an observer on the event controller_action_predispatch for frontend. This is dispatched for every page.
Your observer method should look something like this:

public function redirectToPrefferedStore($observer){
    $customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
    if (!$customer->getId()) { //if the customer is not logged in, do nothing
        return $this;
    }
    $wesbiteId = $customer->getWebsiteId(); 
    //if the customer is associated to the admin website he should not even be able to login
    //but let's be paranoid and do stop it here in case he was able to login by some magic.
    if ($websiteId == 0) {
        return $this;
    }
    //get the website object
    $website = Mage::getModel('core/website')->load($websiteId);
    //if the website does not exist anymore do nothing
    if (!$website->getId()){ 
        return $this;
    }
    //get the website default store view
    $store = $website->getDefaultStore();
    //redirect to store view
    //you can replace the first parameter of the getUrl with a specific page. `customer/account` for example 
    $url = Mage::getUrl('', array('_store'=>$store->getId()));
    //set the redirect
    Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect($url);
    return $this;
}

Now all you need to do is to allow the customers to keep the session between sites.
You can do that from System->Configuration->Web->Session Validation Settings. Set the field Use SID on Frontend to Yes.
Save and clear the cache just in case.

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Magento 1.8 Grouped Products – Resources to Create Programmatically

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