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[wellgolly]

I need to know if there is a way to let people access my home page, but to continue to access the rest of my site or to browse products and make purchases if there is a way to demand sign-up, account creation before they can continue to browse. I hope this makes sense. I looked for tutorials and couldn't find anything on this. Thanks for your help.

[Guest]

Will,

 

 

There are several ways to do this:

 

1) Force the customer to create an account and log in before viewing the site: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/4399

 

2) You can also only show them certain parts of the site until they log in: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6800

 

Another option would be restrict viewing the categories box until the customer logs in.

 

 

 

 

 

Chris

[wellgolly]

Will,

 

 

There are several ways to do this:

 

1) Force the customer to create an account and log in before viewing the site: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/4399

 

2) You can also only show them certain parts of the site until they log in: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6800

 

Another option would be restrict viewing the categories box until the customer logs in.

 

 

 

 

 

Chris

 

 

Hi Chris,

 

Thanks for the help and reply. I looked at what you suggested and I don't think that is what I am looking for. I need something for when a person clicks on a product link that they are brought to sign-up/log-in page, and once that they sign-up/log-in they can browse anything on my site. Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Will

[Guest]

Will,

 

 

I am sorry, I can't think of any contribution that does that. However, you may be able to alter Prices for logged in users: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/601 to suit your needs.

 

 

You will just have to change the flag from prices, to the products id

 

 

Check out this site www.tenantchecks.ca you can see that NO information is displayed until they log in or subscribe in this case. That is what I ment by hiding the categories until they log in.

 

 

 

Chris

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

I need something for when a person clicks on a product link that they are brought to sign-up/log-in page, and once that they sign-up/log-in they can browse anything on my site. Any ideas?

 

That's probably the quickest way to get a potential new custome to leave your site in search of a more friendly site. But I'm sure you have your reasons...

 

In product_info.php install the code that directs to login if not already logged in.

[Guest]

I think Mark is talking about this code:

 

 

if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

$navigation->set_snapshot();

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));

}

 

 

 

to be placed in the product_info.php file just under this:

 

require('includes/application_top.php');

 

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO);

 

 

 

 

Chris

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

I think Mark is talking about this code:

 

 

if (!tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

$navigation->set_snapshot();

tep_redirect(tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'));

}

 

 

 

to be placed in the product_info.php file just under this:

 

require('includes/application_top.php');

 

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO);

 

 

 

 

Chris

Yeah, that's it. I was too lazy to go look for it, and I am no expert in the matter. It may or may not work, but if others endorse it it must be worth a try. It might just do what you want.

[wellgolly]

Yeah, that's it. I was too lazy to go look for it, and I am no expert in the matter. It may or may not work, but if others endorse it it must be worth a try. It might just do what you want.

 

Chris,Mark

 

I tried the last option you suggested and I see no difference. But when I tried to checkout, I had to log-in/create account, so I guess thats close enough to what I was looking for. Thanks for your help guys and have a great week!!

 

Will