login.php for the store itself

[Stanley Krute]

Howdy

I've searched the forum, googled about, and searched the codebase, but haven't found an answer to this question:

How can I make the store itself throw up a login page the way the admin area does ?

E.g., I don't want customers to see ANYTHING unless they're logged in, just the way it works on the admin side.

tia

-- stan

[Merlinpa1969]

admin -> configuration -> customer settings,
must be logged in to browse

[kuroi]

Looks like Merlin has a better solution than me!

[Stanley Krute]

Hi Merlinpa

Thanks, but that's not what I'm after. That setting does NOT stop an unlogged-in customer from seeing parts of the store.

Per my original post, I want customers to see NOTHING but a login, just the way it works on the admin side of things.

-- stan

[Stanley Krute]

Hi kuroi

Thanks for the info. That's what I'm looking for.

Extensive indeed.

This is an important feature for eSites that are to be restricted to a particular set of users.

-- stan

[Stanley Krute]

Hi again kuroi

I'm looking through the admin side files to see an example of how this
is done.

I can't find anything.

Can you point me to a file that does this check on the admin side of things ?

thanks

-- stan

[Merlinpa1969]

actually you can turn OFF header, footer left and right columns
so that all that is shown is the login page

it does just want you want if you make sure to hit the built in switches

[Stanley Krute]

Hi Merlin

Aha !!! Didn't see those extra switches. Thanks for your patience.

So: here's a proposed simple step-by-step on how to do exactly what
I want:

[1] Go to admin/Configuration/Customer Details

[2] Set 'Customer Shop Status - View Shop and Prices' to 1

[3] Set 'Customer Approval Status - Authorization Pending' to 1

[4] Set 'Customer Authorization: Hide Header' to true

[5] Set 'Customer Authorization: Hide Column Left' to true

[6] Set 'Customer Authorization: Hide Column Right' to true

[7] Set 'Customer Authorization: Hide Footer' to true

[8] Set 'Customer Authorization: Hide Prices' to true

[9] Rewrite the store-side login along the lines of the admin-side login

That seems manageable.

-- stan

[Merlinpa1969]

open login.php

comment out ALL of the lines that pertain to creating an account,
voila all done no need to rewrite anything,

[Stanley Krute]

Hi Merlin

Your instructions are a bit sparse for a relative newbie.

The only login.php that's not a set of language defines is on the admin
side of things.

On the store side of things, the file that controls logging in is
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_login_default.php

Is that the file you had in mind ?

That's the file I've tweaked. Unfortunately, for my purposes, it's a template
that's used in the middle of a standard store-side page, so a bunch of header
stuff I don't want is coming through, as seen in this screenshot:

login_001.jpg

Any ideas on the quickest way to short-circuit the extraneous non-login element s ?

thanks for all your help

-- stan