Magento 1.9 – Set Image Using Default for Particular Store View by Code

I didn't become happy using Add Store Code to URLs. The main reason was that we couldn't have several store views using the same language (see my question). Besides that I didn't like I have to use a bad store view code just because of the URL.

I did a small test using the frequently recommended "create a subfolder and create symlinks" tip and it may work. Please check if you like it.

• Create a subfolder /ca/
• Inside the subfolder create symbolic links to
  • ../app
  • ../errors
  • ../includes
  • ../index.php
  • ../js
  • ../lib
  • ../media
  • ../skin
  • ../var
  • (add other directories if you want/need to)

• edit your vHost config for /ca/ (or copy .htaccess to /ca/ and edit it) to

  • Set the rewrite base:

    RewriteBase /ca/

  • Initialise the correct store view based on the URL. There are many ways to do it, one may be:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/ca/.* [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/ca$ [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [E=MAGE_RUN_CODE:ca]
    RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_MAGE_RUN_CODE} (.+)
    RewriteRule .* - [E=MAGE_RUN_CODE:%1,E=MAGE_RUN_TYPE:store]`
    

It worked for me:

• Default store view
  • http://test02.magentoshops.vm/ (links from my VM, you won't see anything)
  • http://test02.magentoshops.vm/test-category.html
  • http://test02.magentoshops.vm/test-category/test-product.html
• Canada store view
  • http://test02.magentoshops.vm/ca/
  • http://test02.magentoshops.vm/ca/test-category.html
  • http://test02.magentoshops.vm/ca/test-category/test-product.html

Creating folders and symlinks isn't fun but at least you don't have to edit core files.

Here is a simple script that updates the meta title for one product in one store view based on the SKU. You can create a CSV file or any other parsable format and use this script in a loop to update your meta titles

$sku = '12345';
$storeId = 2;
$metaTitle = 'Updated meta title';
$id = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product')->getIdBySku($sku);
if ($id) {
     Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_action')->updateAttributes(
         array($id),
         array('meta_title' => $metaTitle),
         $storeId
     );
}

Setting 0 (zero) for $storeId means that the default values will be updated.