How to disable frontend registration in Magento - magento

Question

As titled.
But still, users can login to the frontend, and administrator could create user account only in backend.

Answer 1

Another possibility would be overloading the customer/account/create action and just redirect the user to the home page when this action is invoked.
In a first time, just do what was proposed by Ben V. It will remove the possibility to view the registration page.
Then, create a new module in which you will overload the AccountController.php.
1- Create a new folder in app/code/local/ named Mycompany
2- Create a new folder in app/code/local/Mycompany/ named Registrationremove
3- Create app/code/local/Mycompany/Registrationremove/etc/
4- Create app/code/local/Mycompany/Registrationremove/etc/config.xml
Copy and Paste in config.xml :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Mycompany_Registrationremove>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</Mycompany_Registrationremove>
</modules>
<global>
<rewrite>
<mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_create>
<from><![CDATA[#^/customer/account/create/$#]]></from>
<to>/registrationremove/customer_account/create</to>
</mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_create>
<mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_createPost>
<from><![CDATA[#^/customer/account/createPost/$#]]></from>
<to>/registrationremove/customer_account/createPost</to>
</mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_createPost>
</rewrite>
</global>
<frontend>
<routers>
<registrationremove>
<use>standard</use>
<args>
<module>Mycompany_Registrationremove</module>
<frontName>registrationremove</frontName>
</args>
</registrationremove>
</routers>
</frontend>
</config>
5- Create app/code/local/Mycompany/Registrationremove/controllers
6- Create app/etc/modules/Mycompany_Registrationremove.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Mycompany_Registrationremove>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>local</codePool>
</Mycompany_Registrationremove>
</modules>
</config>
7- Create app/code/local/Mycompany/Registrationremove/controllers/Customer/AccountController.php
Copy and Paste in AccountController.php:
require_once 'Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php';
class Mycompany_Registrationremove_Customer_AccountController extends Mage_Customer_AccountController
{
public function createAction()
{
$this->_redirect('*/*');
}
public function createPostAction()
{
$this->_redirect('*/*');
}
}
8- Create app/code/local/Mycompany/Registrationremove/Helper/Data.php
Copy and paste in Data.php:
class Mycompany_Registrationremove_Helper_Data extends Mage_Core_Helper_Abstract
{
}
Now, when someone tries to access to customer/account/create/ it should be redirected to the home page.
Hope that helped :)
Hugues.

Answer 2

You could modify the login screen to remove the "Create New Account" button. This way existing users can still log in but they have no way to create new accounts.
The file to modify is /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/customer/form/login.phtml. Around line 41 you'll see <div class="col-1 new-users">. Comment out that entire div to hide the New User section of the login page.
Edit:
There is no way to just disable new user registration like you are asking. I did a little more searching, and all I found were several people with the same idea as mine. In addition to my original suggestion, I would
a) remove the <customer_account_create> section of /app/design/frontend/default/default/layout/custom.xml, and
b) remove the registration-related lines from /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/checkout/onepage/login.phtml.

Answer 3

Ok. I got it worked. Refer to Hugues Solution, there are two amendments:
add app\etc\modules\Mycompany_All.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Mycompany_Registrationremove>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>local</codePool>
</Mycompany_Registrationremove>
</modules>
</config>
modify the file: app/code/local/Mycompany/Registrationremove/etc/config.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Mycompany_Registrationremove>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</Mycompany_Registrationremove>
</modules>
<global>
<rewrite>
<mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_create>
<from><![CDATA[#^/customer/account/create/$#]]></from>
<to>/registrationremove/customer_account/create</to>
</mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_create>
<mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_createPost>
<from><![CDATA[#^/customer/account/createPost/$#]]></from>
<to>/registrationremove/customer_account/createPost</to>
</mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_createPost>
</rewrite>
</global>
<frontend>
<routers>
<mycompany_registrationremove>
<use>standard</use>
<args>
<module>Mycompany_Registrationremove</module>
<frontName>registrationremove</frontName>
</args>
</mycompany_registrationremove>
</routers>
</frontend>
</config>

Answer 4

In the above example structure, the controller class name should be changed
from
class Mycompany_Registrationremove_AccountController extends Mage_Customer_AccountController
to
class Mycompany_Registrationremove_Customer_AccountController extends Mage_Customer_AccountController

Answer 5

Does this method works for ver. 1.4.1.1?
Finally I decided to skip all the complicated steps and also modify the register.phtml in \app\design\frontend\base\default\template\customer\form, apart from the files that BenV said.
I deleted the form and changed the title to "User registration disabled" :)

Answer 6

I couldn't get any of the solutions posted here to work, and found I had to use the following syntax in the config.xml (specifically frontend routers syntax):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Mycompany_Registrationremove>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</Mycompany_Registrationremove>
</modules>
<global>
<rewrite>
<mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_create>
<from><![CDATA[#^/customer/account/create/$#]]></from>
<to>/registrationremove/customer_account/create</to>
</mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_create>
<mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_createPost>
<from><![CDATA[#^/customer/account/createPost/$#]]></from>
<to>/registrationremove/customer_account/createPost</to>
</mycompany_registrationremove_customer_account_createPost>
</rewrite>
</global>
<frontend>
<routers>
<customer>
<args>
<modules>
<Mycompany_Registrationremove before="Mage_Customer">Mycompany_Registrationremove_Customer</Mycompany_Registrationremove>
</modules>
</args>
</customer>
</routers>
</frontend>
</config>
There's more info on this method here - http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/0_-_module_development_in_magento/how_to_overload_a_controller

Answer 7

One could always change the customer router to point to a module without controllers, e.g.
<frontend>
<routers>
<customer>
<args>
<module>MyModule_NullRouting</module>
</args>
</customer>
</routers>
</frontend>

Answer 8

As an extension to liquidity's answer, a couple more changes I'd make to improve this. Firstly the regex doesn't match the url if it does not have a trailing slash eg. customer/account/create. To correct, the "from" nodes should read <![CDATA[#^/customer/account/create(/.*)?$#]]> and <![CDATA[#^/customer/account/createPost(/.*)?$#]]>.
Secondly, I've included an observer that listens for the customer_registration_is_allowed event (this gets called in persistent/customer/form/login.phtml when using the RWD theme from the $this->helper('customer')->isRegistrationAllowed() function):
<events>
<customer_registration_is_allowed>
<observers>
<your_module_set_is_active>
<class>Your_Module_Model_Observers_Customer</class>
<method>disableCustomerRegistration</method>
</your_module_set_is_active>
</observers>
</customer_registration_is_allowed>
</events>
Then in the observer:
class Your_Module_Model_Observers_Customer
{
/**
* Force disable customer registration
*
* #param Varien_Event_Observer $observer Observer
* #return void
*/
public function disableCustomerRegistration($observer)
{
$result = $observer->getResult();
if ($result->getIsAllowed() === true) {
$result->setIsAllowed(false);
}
}
}
This sets allowing registration to false and prevents the registration form showing without any template modifications.
Hope this is helpful!