Force Removal of Store Code ?___store=default from URL’s in Magento

Question

In magento, I am using two store views one is for arabic and another one is english language. When I am switching the store to english this string is appended in url (___store=english) for english store view.like wise for arabic. Now I want to remove the ?___store=english for english and ?___store=arabic for arabic in URL.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '15 at 14:18

If using the link widget, use the following process.

Copy app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Widget/Link.php to app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block/Widget/Link.php

Search for (line 91 in Magento 1.7.x / line 100 in Magento 1.9.x)

$this->_href = $this->_href . $symbol . "___store=" . $store->getCode();

And modify to

$this->_href = $this->_href;

Upload and save your changes and you'll now not have your widget (dynamically) inserted links getting appended with ?___store=default.

Credit: DesignHaven

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '14 at 06:06

To remove this format: ?___store=english for english and ?___store=arabic

In the design file find the languages.phtml

/app/design/frontend/default/template/page/switch/languages.phtml

In the line 41

echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl()

Add 'false' as parameter

echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl(false)

Actual Url:

http:example.com?___store=english for english and ?___store=arabic

After added the false parameter in $_lang->getCurrentUrl(false) method. Url will be generated like the below

http:example.com?___store=english

Then to remove the '___store=english' parameter you need to add a pre dispatch event in the controller action: Add this code in your local module config.xml

      <controller_action_predispatch>
            <observers>
                <controller_action_before>
                    <class>marketplace/observer</class>
                    <method>setToControllerActionPreDispatch</method>
                </controller_action_before>
            </observers>
        </controller_action_predispatch>

Add this method in your local observer

public function setToControllerActionPreDispatch($observer)
{   
    $pathInfo = Mage::helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();       
    if(strpos($pathInfo, "___store") != ''){     
        $pathInfo = str_replace(array('?___store=arabic', '?___store=default'), '' , $pathInfo);
        Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect($pathInfo);
    }           

}

are you telling we need to create local module for adding `config.xml & observer` code ? or can we add those codes anywhere in any module ? — fresher, May 19 '16 at 05:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 03 '14 at 09:41

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In admin got to System > Configuration (from the top menu), then go to 'Web' form the left menu.

The first option is 'Add Store Code to Urls', set this to no.

answered Dec 03 '14 at 09:41

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Thank for your comment.But If we do like the above, the url like this format ?___store=arabic&___from_store=default. As I need to remove the store parameter. – sakthivel Dec 05 '14 at 05:43

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 15 '15 at 20:39

After looking at this and experimenting in the admin, my thought is to consider multiple Magento 'websites' instead of stores. It seems even if you exclude the query parameter, Magento wants to append the store name as the first component of the URI. In short, I'm not sure how good an idea it is to try and actually remove the store component from the URL when using multiple 'stores'.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 02 '16 at 10:49

To remove this format: ?___store=english for english

Step 1 : Go to system->Configuration. Then go to web tab. You can see there is an option ' "Add Store Code to Urls" set that option to "Yes"

Step 2 : /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/switch/languages.phtml find this below code :

echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl()
Add 'false' as parameter
echo $_lang->getCurrentUrl(false)

Step 3 : Copy app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Widget/Link.php to app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block/Widget/Link.php

Search this line :
$this->_href = $this->_href . $symbol . "___store=" . $store->getCode();


And modify to : 
$this->_href = $this->_href;

Step 4 : Go to Admin panel locate navigation system->Index Management >> Reindex Data

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 12 '19 at 10:50

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I know the question is old, but if anybody needs this functionality yet and you do not want to change any files I forked module on Github and added some improvements.

You can also use composer to install it.

answered Mar 12 '19 at 10:50

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HenryHayes · Answer 7 · 2020-08-15T13:35:38.557

If, like us, you already have these URLs indexed by Google, you should exclude them in URL parameters, ensure you have a canonical URL tag and then you could also intercept the request in something like index.php and 301 it to a page without the unwanted params:

$url = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if (!empty($url['query'])) {

    //$params = arrary();
    $checkingfor = array('___store', '___from_store');
    parse_str($url['query'], $params);
    if (count(array_intersect_key(array_flip($checkingfor), $params)) > 0) {
        $vars = array_diff_key($params, array_flip($checkingfor));
        $finalUrl = http_build_url(
            '',
            array(
                "scheme" => $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'],
                "host" => $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'],
                "path" => $url['path'],
                "query" => http_build_query($vars)
            )
        );
        header('Location: ' . $finalUrl, true, 301);
        exit();
    }
}

If you don't have PECL installed, use this alternative to http_build_url().

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Force Removal of Store Code ?___store=default from URL’s in Magento

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