[osCmax v2.5x] Blocking acces to the catalog to non-logged users

[dalogar]

I would like to know if it is possible to only allow registered users to be able to enter the public catalog. I mean, the whole site is blocked if you don't login before, like in the Admin side, if you don't login before in a login box, you are unable to access the admin panel.

Does anyone of you know if there is any way to do this using any feature of osCmax or any osC add-on?

Thank you very much.

[pgmarshall]

Yep there are a few over at the mothership ... it is fairly simple ... it just looks for the session variables being set.

osCommerce Community Add-Ons

Regards,

[pgmarshall]

Or,

osCommerce Community Add-Ons

Regards,

[dalogar]

Thank you very much, that was exactly what I was looking for.

I will give a try to these contributions.

[dalogar]

Working! Pretty straightforward.

Thank you for the references.

[pgmarshall]

Which one did you use? From memory the second one is easier ... I am just wondering as it might make a nice addition to v2.6.

Regards,

[dalogar]

I used a part of the first one.

I added at the end of my application_top.php file what it is said in the add-on:

if (DOWN_FOR_MAINTENANCE=='false') { // avoids an infinite loop if DOWN_FOR_MAINTENANCE
if(stristr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], FILENAME_LOGIN) === FALSE && stristr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], FILENAME_PASSWORD_FORGOTTEN) === FALSE && stristr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT) === FALSE) {
if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {
tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));
}
}
}

And that's really all. Apart form this, I changed my template for not showing the header, left and right columns if not logged in, to have only the login box showed in the center of the page if you are not logged in.

This works for me. If you see the above lines should be changed to work properly with 2.5, please tell me.

It is fairly simple, and I think this could be great to add even to 2.5.