Separate customers multi-store system

[luizlaf]

Prestashop 1.5.6.1 standard 

1 multi store system

1 employee for each store

 

Requirements:

 

Due to privacy concerns, customer information is only available (customer is created under the store) when adding a product to cart in that store.

Visualize all carts/orders from all stores.

 

My proposed approach:

 

A system wise table with a master-customer information and the id_customer for each store.

 

A single entry point to the system, where I ensure master-customer is created and logged in.

 

When customer clicks on add-to-cart button, check on master-customer table if customer exists on that store, if yes- automatic login to the store, if not- create a customer in that store, add 

reference to the master-customer table and automatically login customer.

 

Now that the customer is logged in, the cart can be created (or retrieved) for that customer specifically.

 

My progress so far:

 

Master-customer table is created and user logs in fine.

Product page is displayed (store-wise customer is not logged in yet)

When customer clicks on add-to-cart I need to check and create customer in that store.

Under function assignContentVars($params) of blockcart.php

 Check from master-customer, assuming the customer exists in that store already (returns id_customer for that shop)

 

$customer = new Customer((int)$result[0]['id_cust_shop']);

Context::getContext()->customer =  $customer;

Context::getContext()->customer->logged = true;

Rest of the function...

 

The cart is being created, but the customer information is not being inserted (as if the customer is not logged in).

 

if I insert the code below just before the end of the function:

$this->context->cart->id_customer = (int)$customer->id;

$this->context->cart->secure_key = $customer->secure_key;

$this->context->cart->save();

 

The cart is created with the correct customer information, but somehow 3 carts are created...

 

Questions:

Any better approach to achieve this?

Is the code I produced in the right place (function assignContentVars($params))?

Am I doing the right automatic login (apparently not, even though when I check $customer->isLogged() returns true)

Why is the cart not initially created with the id_customer, and with the 2nd session of the code I get multiple creations?

 

Thanks for the help!

 

[jamiehthomas]

Looking forward to hearing an answer to this post.  I would love to create the same thing.