Login only prestashop catalog - customization

Question

Im building a prestashop catalog, but it needs to be visible to logged in customers only. Is this possible. It would be nice if the built in prestashop login is used for this.. any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I have a suggestion. You can use the Customer Groups feature in PrestaShop 1.5 and only allow logged in customers to see the prices. For every Customer that is grouped in Visitor, they would see your website in Catalog Mode.

Answer 2

Prestashop 1.5 solution:
Simply upload the original file:
classes\controller\FrontController.php
into:
override/classes/controller/FrontController.php
Next, rename the class. Final code should look like this:
class FrontController extends FrontControllerCore
{
public function init()
{
parent::init();
if (!$this->context->customer->isLogged() && $this->php_self != 'authentication' && $this->php_self != 'password')
{
Tools::redirect('index.php?controller=authentication?back=my-account');
}
}
}
The last step is to manually delete the following file so prestashop is aware of the overriden class (It will be re-generated automatically):
cache/class_index.php
And voilà, functionality achieved without overwriting core files.

Answer 3

It'll be easy.
Use this code:
if(!self::$cookie->isLogged(true) AND in_array($this->step, array(1, 2, 3)))
Tools::redirect('authentication.php');
In the preprocess of your indexController

Answer 4

Here’s my solution, it works like a charm and is a very easy fix!
In classes\Configuration.php (around line 114) it looks like this
static public function get($key, $id_lang = NULL)
{
if ($id_lang AND isset(self::$_CONF_LANG[(int)$id_lang][$key]))
return self::$_CONF_LANG[(int)$id_lang][$key];
elseif (is_array(self::$_CONF) AND key_exists($key, self::$_CONF))
return self::$_CONF[$key];
return false;
}
change it to this:
static public function get($key, $id_lang = NULL)
{
//Grab access to the $cookie which is already loaded in the FrontController as global $cookie;
global $cookie;
if ($id_lang AND isset(self::$_CONF_LANG[(int)$id_lang][$key]))
return self::$_CONF_LANG[(int)$id_lang][$key];
elseif (is_array(self::$_CONF) AND key_exists($key, self::$_CONF))
//If the system is trying to find out if Catalog Mode is ON, then return the configuration setting,
//but override it with the user logon status
if($key == 'PS_CATALOG_MODE')
{
return !$cookie->logged || self::$_CONF[$key];
}
else
{
return self::$_CONF[$key];
}
return false;
}
Essentially, I wanted to force the system to display the “Catalog Mode” when the user is not logged in, and to turn this off when he is logged in.
I can guarantee this works for v1.4.3.0 and the code for the current version 1.4.8.2 (at the time of this post) has not changed, so it should work there.