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osCommerce - How to make a dealer only site

July 7th, 2006

I was running myself stupid searching for a way to make osCommerce into a dealer only site.  I didn’t need much, I just wanted users that weren’t logged in to not be able to see much.  I wanted unauthenticated users to only be able to see the login page (of course), the FAQ, Contact page, and a few information pages.

There are other osCommerce contributions that feature different pricing per customer and stuff like that.  But I think there are a lot of people like me that just needed to restrict access to the prices, product info and such.

I’ve got a bit of a caveat.  I am running CRE Loaded 6.2.  I’m sure it’s fairly simple to find the file this code should be in with a standard osCommerce install.

Here are the modifications:

In file [/templates/Original/header.php]:

at about line 18, just after this line of code:

if (DOWN_FOR_MAINTENANCE_HEADER_OFF =='false') {

Add this code:

//CUSTOM FOR DEALER ONLY SITE!!
if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {
 switch($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) {
  case '/login.php':
  case '/login.php?action=process';
  case '/contact_us.php':
  case '/links.php':
  case '/information.php?info_id=1':
  case '/information.php?info_id=2':
  case '/information.php?info_id=3':
  case '/login.php':   
  case '/password_forgotten.php':   
   break;
  default:
   header('Location: /login.php');
   break;
 }

You’ll likely want to modify the list of ‘allowable’ files, but this should be a great start if you want simple dealer only or a dealer portal osCommerce application.

Entry Filed under: Programming, osCommerce