How to enable or disable the “Add to Cart” button for products based on the role of the store owner?

Question

I have Drupal 8 and Commerce 2. I created a "Merchant" and "Premium Merchant" role. By default, users who create a store have the "Merchant" role.

What I am trying to do is the following.

• If the user has the "Merchant" role, the "Add to Cart" button on his products is deactivated for all users and visitors
• If the user has the "Premium Merchant" role, the "Add to Cart" button on his products is activated for all users and visitors

How do I activate or deactivate the "Add to cart" button of a store's products according to the role of the store owner?

The Rules module is of no use because it has been in development for several years and is still not usable.

To summarize, the rule should be:

• If the shop owner has the role "Premium Merchant", the products of his stores are purchasable
• If the shop owner has the role "Merchant", the products of his stores are not purchasable

I also installed the Commerce Add To Cart Link module, which may be useful in my use case.

Option 1

In template files, may have conditions like the following.

{% if logged_in %}
...
{% else %}
...
{% endif %}

I discover programming. Can we write the rules of my questions in a template file?

<div{{ attributes }}>
  <a href="{{ url }}" class="add-to-cart-link" data-variation="{{ product_variation.id }}">{{ 'Add to cart'|t }}</a>
</div>

https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/tags/if.html

Option 2

I'm trying to create a custom module, but I do not know how to do it.

commerce_add_to_cart_access.info.yml

name: 'Commerce Add To Cart Access'
type: module
description: "Commerce Add To Cart Access for working with the commerce cart module."
# core: 8.x
package: Commerce
dependencies:
  - commerce:commerce_cart
  - commerce:commerce_product

# Information added by Drupal.org packaging script on 2018-10-25
version: '8.x-1.0'
core: '8.x'
project: 'commerce_add_to_cart_link'
datestamp: 1524519795

commerce_add_to_cart_access.module

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * Hook implementations of commerce_add_to_cart_access module.
 */

use Drupal\commerce_product\Entity\ProductType;
use Drupal\commerce_product\Entity\ProductVariationType;
use Drupal\Core\Entity\Display\EntityViewDisplayInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Url;

/**
 * Implements ????? for commerce_product_variation.
 */
function ????? {
  /** @var \Drupal\commerce_store\CurrentStoreInterface $current_store */
  $current_store = \Drupal::service('commerce_store.current_store');
  $owner = $current_store->getStore()->getOwner();
  $build['add_to_cart_link']['#access'] = $owner->hasRole('premium_merchant');
  $form['access_denied'] = ['#markup' => t('No online sales'),];
}

Answer 1

I think the function you need is: MYMODULE_form_commerce_order_item_add_to_cart_form_alter() source

I have a similar setup, but I am using the Variation Cart Form module, so some of the details are different. In my case I'm using HOOK_preprocess_commerce_product_variation() function.

In either case, I recommend using the preprocess function AND a custom template. The preprocess can run some logic and pass a variable to the template, which is where you decide what to display. I find working with templates easier than render arrays.

In your case, the .module file could have:

function MODULE_form_commerce_order_item_add_to_cart_form_alter(&$form, \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state, $form_id) {
  // Your original code to get store owner.
  $current_store = \Drupal::service('commerce_store.current_store');
  $owner = $current_store->getStore()->getOwner();
  // Default behavior is to disable add-to-cart button.
  $store_open = FALSE;
  if ($owner->hasRole('premium_merchant')) {
    // Only enable button if logic passes.
    $store_open = TRUE;
  }
  // Pass variable to the form.
  // Not sure this is correct in the case of a form.
  $form['store_open'] = $store_open;
}

And in the template you could have the logic you referenced above:

{% if store_open %}
  add to cart
{% else %}
  product unavailable
{% endif %} 

FWIW, there may be other ways to solve this, which don't rely on the store owner's role. You could create a global variable, true/false, to run this check. In my case, I have a field on the products, so that some can be available to purchase and others not.

EDIT: the absolute easiest way is to avoid the template, as it's a relatively simple form element in this case. You can totally overwrite the form:

function MODULE_form_commerce_order_item_add_to_cart_form_alter(&$form, \Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state, $form_id) {
  // Your original code to get store owner.
  $current_store = \Drupal::service('commerce_store.current_store');
  $owner = $current_store->getStore()->getOwner();
  if (!$owner->hasRole('premium_merchant')) {
    // Overwrite the whole form markup!
    $form = ['#markup' => 'Not available for purchase'];        
  }
}

To clarify, you don't need to return $form in this case, because the function is passing the form by reference, i.e. &$form.