Multiple Stores Using Same Exact Db/tables?

[EricGTP313]

This is a strange request, and I know that. but its what the client wants :)

 

Basically,there will be two stores. StoreA and StoreB. Everything will be the same, except for the header, left navigation, footer, etc. I figure thats easy enough to write some code for, depending on what the url is (siteA.com or siteB.com). But with that, they want to be able to NOT show store A's products on store B, and vice versa, all while managing both stores from one admin panel. I figure that could be easy enough to, as long as i get the different navigations, just make the left navigation for store b have static links to only store B's products, and vice versa.

 

Now the problem comes in with being able to dynamically edit each navigation from the one central admin panel....

 

Is there ANY way to do ANYTHING like this? I'd like to keep it as simple as posisble, but it doesn't sound like it's going to be.

 

Thanks a bunch for any advice! :)

[compwhizmm90]

This is a strange request, and I know that. but its what the client wants :)

 

Basically,there will be two stores. StoreA and StoreB. Everything will be the same, except for the header, left navigation, footer, etc. I figure thats easy enough to write some code for, depending on what the url is (siteA.com or siteB.com). But with that, they want to be able to NOT show store A's products on store B, and vice versa, all while managing both stores from one admin panel. I figure that could be easy enough to, as long as i get the different navigations, just make the left navigation for store b have static links to only store B's products, and vice versa.

 

Now the problem comes in with being able to dynamically edit each navigation from the one central admin panel....

 

Is there ANY way to do ANYTHING like this? I'd like to keep it as simple as posisble, but it doesn't sound like it's going to be.

 

Thanks a bunch for any advice! :)

 

Check the contribution section. I think there are several contributions for this. I think one is called multi stores.