Comments on: How to fully disable (turn off) Magento module

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:40:19 +0000

The folks at Yireo have what seems to be a different take on the impact of “Disable Module Output” vs XML disable. See what they say at:
http://www.yireo.com/tutorials/magento/magento-administration/665-disabling-magento-modules

By: About

About — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:47:18 +0000

oh man, thanks for this tip. Searched on google for about an hour till i found your post.
Why is this not told in the backedn or saomewhere else.

thank you for sharing.

the paid j2t discount label modul messed up a clients page and he was really depreceated. since we found your page and we could finally completely disable the module.

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:12:18 +0000

Is it possible to disable a module for a website or store view using this method? Please note, I am well aware of the enable/disable option in System >> Config >> Advanced, but I’d like to know if it’s possible to disable the module with the method described in this post.

By: sjolzy

sjolzy — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:09:40 +0000

i have been studying on close the models as far as possible, but i can not make a decide

By: Volly

Volly — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:39:44 +0000

@Timo and @ Fernando
you can make a small code-extension in the module while magentos module deactivation dont work correkt
put:

if(!Mage::getStoreConfigFlag('advanced/modules_disable_output/Company_ModuleName')) {
    //my module code here
} else {
    //dont do anything (output disabled)
}

works in Magento 1.4.1.1

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:44:08 +0000

Hi – I have made a modification to the admin head.phtml (on a separate theme) which is controlled by a small module that sets the theme as active when enabled. the problem is that it keeps showing even after the module output is set to disabled. Obviously I don’t want anyone to have to set false (like you mentioned here) – as It’s a bit of an inconvenient to the end user. Could anyone share some knowledge on how to fix this?

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:56:14 +0000

@Timo, did you finally fix your problem? I have the same and i don’t know how to do it

By: Snowcore

Snowcore — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:22:30 +0000

What about disabling core modules? E.g. how can I disable Google Base module from my Admin?

By: Itos

Itos — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:15:30 +0000

hi,
for method containing observer tasks, I covered it with this condition:

if(!Mage::getStoreConfigFlag(‘myCompany/modulename’)) {
//codes here
}

what this condition does is, returns status of the module as its disabled in admin or not.
If its disable then my codes won’t get executed so I archive total disabled status of my module.

By: Timo Körber

Timo Körber — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:36:18 +0000

do you have a solution to fully disable a Module just for a specific Website, Store or View? It’s a Problem I’ve been having for a while. An just disabling the output doesn’t do the trick.

By: Ivan Weiler

Ivan Weiler — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:36:02 +0000

Also remember to disable System->Cache Management->Configuration cache.