Multi-Stores shop system for OSCMAX

[jpf]

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Multi-Stores shop system for OSCMAX

Version 1.4
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These modifications allow you to assign specific products and categories to multiple stores that you define in the administration panel. The products and categories

[MindTwist]

You can check out some of my previous posts to see some things that do not come with the MS installation. I have not posted them because I enjoy talking with myself, but because I know that one month after I have not done anything else on MS, I won't remember any more what I did or did not, and because the info can be helpful for those that have to try it on later.

Maybe we will eventually find someone who feels like doing the installation on top of a clean OSCMAX installation and trying ALL the features that should be on a full Multi Stores installation...

/includes/modules/xsell_products.php - I do not think you want customers on store 2 seeing that people who have purchased product X also purchased product Y which you have active on store 1, but not on store 2

/templates/fallback/content/catalog_products_with_images.tpl.php - Same here, by default it will show all products without checking if they are active or not on the current store

/templates/fallback/content/sitemap.tpl.php - Same as above, but with categories instead of products

/includes/modules/default_specials.php - On main page you will see specials not just on the current store, but on all stores

Search, I kinda remember search was also giving me back results of inactive products on the current store... and the new products module was showing me several times the same product if it had a special price (product normal price 10EUR, special price on store1 = 8EUR, special price on store 2 = 6EUR, it could show like a new product with any of the prices, and you could even see the 3 at the same time).

My installation would not be useful to create a contribution that would work for anyone out of the box. I still have some broken things I know of which I do not need fixing because they don't bother me (special price on store 1 will show on two places on store 2, but I do not care because when I create a special price for a product, it will be active on all stores).

[habelson]

as an aside, I have also modified it so that you could choose which banners are shown on which stores, similar to how you do that with products.

Perhaps this summer I can find the time to work on this as a complete contribution with fixes. But I don't use all of these features to know where the problems are so maybe you could help me ou tin that way. You have done a good job documenting those issues in this thread.

[MindTwist]

hehe see, I do not use banners on my site, so if there was already MS support for banners on the contribution and it was broken from the beginning, I would never even find out...

There are some more things I would like to add support for MS on my site, like "articles" and I might use in the future banners and affiliates, but I will be happy enough when all the basics are up and running.

[habelson]

I think it would also be nice for newsletters and the customer e-mail tool to tie into the multi-store mod. For instance it would be nice to send a newsletter to all customers from a particular store. Perhaps some of these should be optional and there should be a section in the admin panel to control which of these features are enabled for multi-store... that would be an interesting addition to the mod

[MindTwist]

Multi-Stores is so much fun. Just felt like coming back and leting you know how much I enjoy it, I just had to adapt 3 contributions for it, and I even learnt some SQL along the way hehe...

I installed a PDF catalog/pricelist creator, which of course needed to be adapted for Multi-Stores, otherwise it was creating the catalog for all the products, no matter if they were active or not on the store. It also needed to create catalogs with diffrenet names, so each store can have its own PDF catalog.

I also needed to change a couple contributions for price comparison web sites, since I was submiting to them XML feeds on all my products. Now if I ever submit the products on the secondary stores, every XML feed will only have the products that belong to that store.

So much enjoying OSCMAX today, so much fun with Multi-Stores...!! I think I still had something broken from the default OSCMAX installation, sitemap is showing all categories even if they are not active on that store I think. Gonna check out that one right now!