Custom Store View Selector For Magento Scripts

Magento CE 1.7.0.2

Magento offers an excellent store view selector which is easy to hook into for custom module development. I wrote an article on that over here.

However, today I needed to add a store view selector to a custom script for Magento that interfaces with the store database. Don’t ask. So I wrote a little function to easily build a store view selector for your own custom module. There’s probably a built-in method for this; please let me know if you find it!

First, get the store data array from Mage. There’s a few ways to set this up, here’s a quick n dirty:

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require_once('app/Mage.php');
umask(0);
Mage::app();

// get stores
$_stores = Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/system_store')->getStoreValuesForForm(false, true);

The function that builds the HTML for us: (note that I am pre-selecting the store view with id 8. You will probably want to remove this, or customise it.

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function getAllStoreViews($storesArray, $fieldId, $fieldName = 'stores[]', $fieldClass){
$html = '<select name="' . $fieldName . '" id="' . $fieldId . '" class="' . $fieldClass . '">';
foreach ($storesArray as $siteId => $site){
$html .= '<optgroup label=" ' .$site["label"] . '">';
if (is_array($site["value"])) {
foreach ($site["value"] as $view){
$html .= '<option value="' . $view["value"] . '" ' . ($view["value"] == "8" ? " selected="selected"" : "") . '>' . $view['label'] . '</option>';
}
} else {
$html .= '<option value="' . $site["value"] . '">' . $site['label'] . '</option>';
}
$html .= '</optgroup>';
}
$html .= '</select>';
return $html;
}

Now we have everything we need to build our form element with a single call. I’ve added simple parameters to pass in a custom name for our field, as well as optional id and class attributes. We call our function like this:

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<label for="stores">
<span>Add To Store: </span>
<?php echo getAllStoreViews($_stores, 'stores'); ?>
</label>

That’s all there is to it. Enjoy 🙂

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