Static Block – Showing Static Block Only to Specific Customer Group

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I have a webshop were I have to hide away the login and create user form, because I only want customers with a specific link to be able to register. When they have registered they will be able to see a category that only they have a link for.
What I want to do is create a static block that contains links to this category, customers dashboard etc. that only logged in users/or users in a specific customer can see.
How can i achieve this?

Best Answer

Use Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn() before your block as a conditional and you have scenario 1 fixed.

Also you can use Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId() to get the Customer group Id as another conditional before echoing your block. See how to echo a block here.

Complete code:

<?php if (Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn() && Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId() == "something") :?>
    <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('sample_links') ?>
<?php endif;?>

Remember to define your block in your XML file.

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Magento – Showing different stores based on customer group

Magento's core implementation of store view selection logic leaves a bit to be desired, but as you found out your solution is heavy-handed and has several knock-on effects.

There are several extensions which handle this functionality for you. Outside of moral opposition to using third-party extensions you should look into those as well-tested modifications with dedicated support.

If you want to build this yourself though you should start with an event observer on controller_action_predispatch which is fired on every request.

Call Static Block into Another Static Block Through Template

First off, the code should be

{{block type="core/template" template="custom/employee-links-template.phtml"}}

No need to edit your local.xml you can call your static block in your custom/employee-links-template.phtml template, see below.

   <?php if (Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn() && Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId() == "4") :?>
    <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock("cms/block")->setBlockId("your-static-block-id")->toHtml();?>
   <?php endif;?>

Explanation: You cannot add children to blocks that are dynamically created with {{block}}, or access them from the layout XML, so you have to create the inner block directly from the template.

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