Creating multiple shops without multistore

[OswaldStage]

Hello, i would like to make a shop which controls multiple shops without using multistore. It's a shop which controls 4 different shops with different products but all sales and profits go to the main shop.

 

Any ideas? I thought of creating categories, but i would like to give a different design to every page.

[OswaldStage]

In multistore i used shared cart and shared customers, etc. But when you buy a product the money should be wired to the main shop, is it possible to do this in multistore? 

pls help 

[musicmaster]

Having different layouts for different categories is not difficult: just write an if-statement at the start of your category.tpl file. 

 

But beyond that you are asking for the impossible.

[OswaldStage]

Thank you for the reply. I started changing my category layout/theme, but if i modify the layout for a category i want the same lay-out to display for the subcategory within that category. Is this possible?

[musicmaster]

That is not really possible.

 

For this kind of cases I work with arrays:

 

{assign var=varAcats value=[1, 54, 55, 58, 81, 82, 94, 101, 113, 136, 142, 143, 150, 151, 237]}

{if in_array($category.id_category, $varAcats)}

...

{/if}