Remove fields from customer adminhtml tab

Question

I am trying to remove two fields from appearing in the Magento adminhtml > Customers > Manage Customers > Customer Information > Account Information tab and cannot seem to get Magento to recognize what I've done. (At least, not that I can see.)

In my custom module that I want to include the override, I have:

file: app/code/community/MyCompany/Profile/Block/Adminhtml/Customer/Edit/Tab/Account.php

class MyCompany_Profile_Block_Adminhtml_Customer_Edit_Tab_Account
    extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Customer_Edit_Tab_Account
{
    public function initForm()
    {
        die('My module adminhtml block loaded!');
    }
 }

Once I can confirm that the above initForm() method is getting called, I will then modify it to remove the fields. However, at this juncture, since it does not even appear to be called, I am first focusing on the basic setup that I have.

file: app/code/community/MyCompany/Profile/etc/config.xml

...
    <blocks>
        <profile>
            <class>MyCompany_Profile_Block</class>
        </profile>
        <adminhtml>
            <rewrite>
                <customer_edit_tab_account>MyCompany_Profile_Block_Adminhtml_Customer_Edit_Tab_Account</customer_edit_tab_account>
            </rewrite>
        </adminhtml>
    </blocks>

I'm not getting the die() or any error thrown. I'm assuming that there is some small yet non-trivial item that I'm not setting/calling.

P.S. I do not want to remove the customer attributes from Magento, which is why I am trying to suppress/remove them from the adminhtml tab on which they appear.

P.P.S. Caching is completely disabled, so it is not a config caching issue.

Magento caching is disabled in the Dev environment. I've also flushed my redis cache and have restarted nginx. This is being added to an existing, functioning module, so the MyCompany_Profile.xml file already exists in app/etc/modules. — Rob Emenecker

Ilgıt Yıldırım Ilgıt Yıldırım · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-28T09:36:51

I was just looking through some Magento stuff and I came across this one.

Just in case if someone got stuck with similar approach this could help.

First create the modules xml file; File: /app/etc/modules/MyCompany_Profile.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<config>
    <modules>
        <MyCompany_Profile>
            <active>true</active>
            <codePool>community</codePool>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </MyCompany_Profile>
    </modules>
</config>

Important: since codePool is community, we'll put our plugin accordingly under /app/code/community/ if codePool would be local than we would put our plugin under /app/code/local/

Now let's create our config.xml File: /app/code/community/MyCompany/Profile/etc/config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<config>
    <modules>
        <MyCompany_Profile>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </MyCompany_Profile>
    </modules>

    <global>
        <blocks>
            <adminhtml>
                <rewrite>
                    <customer_edit_tab_account>
                        MyCompany_Profile_Block_Customer_Edit_Tab_Account
                    </customer_edit_tab_account>
                </rewrite>
            </adminhtml>
        </blocks>
    </global>
</config>

Now we can create our class;

File: /app/code/community/MyCompany/Profile/Block/Customer/Edit/Tab/Account.php

class MyCompany_Profile_Block_Customer_Edit_Tab_Account extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Customer_Edit_Tab_Account
{

    /**
     * Form initiation modification
     */
    public function initForm()
    {
        die('hello world!');
    }
}

Now, if you are using cache, you need to clear it as Magento won't see newly generated XML files thus won't be able to read & recognize our module and our module's config.xml

Once it is done, go ahead to visit a profile, you'll see Hello World printed on the screen.

Remove fields from customer adminhtml tab

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