Magento

"Now we�re ready to drill down to the store level.  The main thing that will be different between collegemedia in English and collegemedia in Spanish is text. In this example, having multiple stores under the same website makes sense, since the URL itself won�t actually change when switching languages in the store.”

I’m a little confused by this statement?  Won’t the URL be different?  In the demostore it looks like the URL contains text from the categories, products, etc...so since that text will be in spanish, it seems like the URL will be different. 

Oh, I see now what it means.  The URL may change but it will still point to the same place/product.

One other question. Since some parts of the URL may be hard coded in (like “category” possibly?), will those parts of the URL be able to be changed to reflect the spanish word for “category” (whatever that may be)?

Thanks!

It woule be nice
to have seperate login location for store managers,
as admin/developer you setup the store, and the store manager login provides limited access to the client (Store manager) to edit there store,
perhaps a small page with billing could be implemented by magento team so you could sell ‘store subscriptions’ if this wont be implemented im planning on writing this myself..

after login , the client (Store manager) sees how long there subscribtion lasts, perhaps the number of products can be limited, etc.
Would be a nice idea.

Cheers!

Ok I havent really red it yet, so its not allowed to have this kind of option?
Perhaps buying a developer license would be an option, which such option would become available. I have no commercial plans yet its just for my own store setup and perhaps lateron for clients. Its a good suggestion for me to read the license indeed. Thanks

Thanks, I was looking for Multistore instead of Multiple websites.

I’ve read the notes as to how to work with multiple domains, but are there any instructions about setting up multiple stores on a single domain?

Also, I want to have a different page in the CMS for each store… when I try to create 2 home pages, each with a different store, the CMS tells me that there’s already a page called home, so I can’t create a second. Is this right, you can’t have a different version of a page on different sites?

e.g. craigowen.com/magenta/home would be different to quadtech.co.uk/magenta/home where both run out of the same webspace.

Thanks

Craig

Hi Yoav,
thanks for the feedback, the fix that you sent worked for the website - that’s great, I should be able to get on with some customisation for multiple stores now.
The preview functionality in admin screens doesn’t work though, it always previews the default website, and ignores the domain of the store, not a big problem.

I know how to configure domains to each show a different store, using the $_SERVER[’HTTP_HOST’] and setting Mage::run($store); but a little confused if I want to have 2 stores on the same domain, like en and de versions, do I have to create subfolders on the server to sit the different sites in and se the Mage::run($store); from there? Where would they appear in navigation on the magento homepage to link to them (do i just have to add it to the body text)? Or have I missed a crucial part in some documentation?

Thanks for your help
Craig

@RoyRubin - With your comments about the license restrictions you are stating that no one can offer a hosted Magento solution (like Shopify etc).  Which I think is fine.
What I am curious about, are your reasons for imposing this restriction?  Are you planning to launch a hosted solution yourself?

Another quick question.  Would this mean that you would require any code contributions by outside developers (for the core system, not addons) to have the copyright handed over to Varien?

Thanks.

Maybe I missed it, but can you have two stores, each with their own domain name and own unique products. Basically everything would be different e.g. products, prices, CMS pages.

Can each one have it’s own custom design? Man… this thing isn’t coming out soon enough!

Hello @all,

I could not find the information on how to direct to the several stores.

e.g.:  the main installation is on multimedia.com,where is the spanish shop located?
How do I manage to point to the same installation via Collegemedia.com, there is some webserver managment involved isn’t it?

can somebody link the resource or explain it here?

Is there a way to manage one global stock distributed in several stores (physical, not on-line ones) with little difference between them (models, sizes, quantities) and allow customers (2 languages needed) to buy on-line or to know where they can find one specific product and reserve it if they desire so?

I’ve just installed the latest Magento.

I reconfigured for multistores using $_SERVER[’HTTP_HOST’] and setting Mage::run($store); as before. The website knows that the correct store is being requested as it appears in the dropdown list at the bottom, but the CMS page for the default store appears.

Preview button in the CMS always still shows the default store, and the instruction for naming a CMS page suggests to include the domain name, but this doesn’t work either

Any help would be appreciated

When I think of Multiple Stores/Web sites, I think of the ability of having different product choices within one installation. For example. if you had a sports apparel website and wanted to separate your site by major league sports, such as a MLB site, NFL Site or NHL site, each having different products with different SKU’s, is this possible? Or, is this limited to languages only?

WoWeee! Most applications require code modifications to make this possible. I have clients using Cre Loaded or osCommerce and, if this is true, you have yourself a whopper of an application. One, I might add, would benefit me personally as I have been looking for a way to get my sports apparel site off the ground without having to spend the time to modify another appliation to accomplish the same thing.

That being said… when will Magento have a production release ready?

I was watching the webinar and it seemed to focus on languages. Having the ability to separate your store by categories opens up a slew of opportunities. Again, with a site such as a sports apparel site, I like the idea of being able to having different stores for different sports affiliations. it seemingly makes browsing the site easier and would allow the site owner to emphasize products in a more enticing way.

That’s sweet Roy. I recently made sure our servers had the extensions/addons/modules necessary to run Magento. As a user of Cre Loaded, I think Magento already out does what it, and many other applications offer and would have no problem offering it to my clients over some of the PHP applications that are around today. My favorite part is AJAX.