Implementing international multistore shop workflow

Question

Under a single www.domain.com URL, I have to implement an international shop that does the following:

1) Identify the customer's country (Done)

2) Identify the customer's browser language (Done)

3) Match the browser language with a choice of implemented translations (about 10) and show the front end and store in that language. If not supported, fall back to English.

4) Load that customer's country specific listing (we have 180! Most are in dollars) and show it.

Any suggestions accepted!

Answer 1

thank you very much for your reply.

Despite our greatest efforts we did not find much support in the Magento community so we had to implement another e-commerce platform. Community support in there was somewhat more "cooperative" and the software platform is much easier to comprehend and to tweak to support 180 different price listings, therefore we are now selling our products on that platform.

Answer 2

What we have done in the past with this sort of request is to create a table where you can store mappings of browser language to store.

Then when you are catching the user hitting the site you compare their browser language with your look-up table, if there is a match then simply redirect the user to the appropriate store.