Extra Order Form Fields

pianowoman · January 24, 2003

While I found the module for creating text boxes and what not for products, I so far have been unsuccessful in finding a solution for adding another field to the order form. There are some questions that would be annoying to have to answer on every product you add to the shopping cart, such as "How did you find us". Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

csavery · January 25, 2003

Hi pianowoman,

I'd like to have something like this in my system. I can add the code myself as I'm a long time programmer but I think I'll add it to the account creation screen as they only do it once when signing up the first time. They have to do this before doing an order anyway so I figure it's a good place and there isn't a nice place to do it for orders... although I guess on the shipping checkout screen may work. The code is fairly easy on the account creation and the data can just go into the customer table as an extra field.

I may not do it for a few days or week but when I do I'll try to keep it easy and see if I can pass on the mods to you - if you're interested. I've heavily modified my system to automatically track referrals from toher sites but sometimes a bit of custoemr supplied info can be illuminating about how people actually discover us.

Chris ;)

January 25, 2003

might be handy if you could put together this as a contribution for the community, this feature may be of use to others also.

cheers

barry

January 27, 2003

I have two account signup pages... one for regular customers and the other for trade (linked from the first).... the trade page has:

Company Name

Trading Name

Company address

Mobile Number

Trade Associations (drop menu)

Other (text area)

Any of these useful...?

Introduce Yourself (text area)

February 3, 2003

I need something like this too.

Need it so customers can put in their billing address not just their delivery address.

CK99 · February 4, 2003

Hi,

I am new to OSC and have found that to be a great shopping cart program. However what prevents me from going ahead with this for my new website, is the inability to add extra fields in order form like "Delivery Date", "Sender Message Box", etc.

I have gone thru the whole forum and saw people discusinn about it, but there seems to have been no solution at the end.

If anyone has any ideas about it, please let me know, so I can decide to use OSC as my shopping cart or not.

Thanks a bunch!

Krish

February 5, 2003

Krish....

Did you not read my post..?.... You can add anything you like... if you don't know how to do it you can:

a. LEARN how to do it.

b. WAIT until somebody else does do it and finds the time to contribute it.

c. ASK somebody if they can help you do it.

d. PAY somebody else to do it for you.

I am sure there are other options too.

loxly · February 5, 2003

I would like to LEARN how to do it :lol: So I can customize my account information forms and collect additional information on checkout. I would like people to select a nonprofit organization to donate a percentage of their order total, or be able to tell me who they were referred by. So I guess this information can come when they sign up for an account.

So point me to the "where and how".

Debbie

February 8, 2003

me too, need to be pointed to where and how. Newbie:)

I want the billing information to be added underneath the credit card info in checkout. How would I do this?

mgraphics · February 13, 2003

1. Find the page you want to change (i.e. checkout_process)

2. Make a backup of the page.

3. Learn some basic PHP.

4. Start playing around with the order.

5. Hope that it works!

If you want to change around the customer email you can move around (or remove ) the blocks of information. I added an "EMAIL_TEXT_THANK"

to personalize the email a bit more.

/ lets start with the email confirmation

$email_order = STORE_NAME . "n" .

EMAIL_TEXT_THANK."n".

EMAIL_SEPARATOR . "n" .

EMAIL_TEXT_ORDER_NUMBER . ' ' . $insert_id . "n" .

EMAIL_TEXT_INVOICE_URL . ' ' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT_HISTORY_INFO, 'order_id=' . $insert_id, 'SSL', false) . "n" .

EMAIL_TEXT_DATE_ORDERED . ' ' . strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG) . "nn";

if ($order->info['comments']) {

$email_order .= $order->info['comments'] . "nn";

}

$email_order .= EMAIL_TEXT_PRODUCTS . "n" .

EMAIL_SEPARATOR . "n" .

$products_ordered .

EMAIL_SEPARATOR . "n";

On another page I changed the "Suburb" field to a "Reseller Number" and moved to under the "Company Name".

If you stare at it long enough, it might start to make sense. I'm still staring!

Have Fun! :)

-Doug

yazzer · February 28, 2003

I have two account signup pages... one for regular customers and the other for trade (linked from the first).... the trade page has:

Company Name

Trading Name

Company address

Mobile Number

Trade Associations (drop menu)

Other (text area)

Johnson,

Did you go as far as adding these new fields to the admin interface?

I've figured out how to add fields to the php pages, and new fields to mysql, and that's all working just fine.

I figured it would be nice to put together a little "how to" for adding fields, and it wouldn't hurt if we could take it as far as allowing you to turn them on or off from the admin area, like you can with Company, Birthdate & Gender. This could then be put in the contributions.

February 28, 2003

Johnson,

Did you go as far as adding these new fields to the admin interface?

Not yet... for me its a matter of priorities - I have the functionality I need for the single website I am working on - I have so much other stuff to do that I must relegate the admin side till I can find the time to do it.

I've figured out how to add fields to the php pages, and new fields to mysql, and that's all working just fine.

I figured it would be nice to put together a little "how to" for adding fields, and it wouldn't hurt if we could take it as far as allowing you to turn them on or off from the admin area, like you can with Company, Birthdate & Gender. This could then be put in the contributions.

Are you thinking of doing this? Would be nice. I am working on another contribution at the moment, again to do with the signup page - that is all I can squeeze time for at the moment.

sgflowers · March 3, 2003

I would be interested in help in adding additional fields to thew order process if anyone has done this let me know

Morbantokk · March 4, 2003

i?m interested too in new fields for new checkout. i need a textfield. the option type feature doesn?t run under MS1.. :(

and the author of this contrib has no time these days for change it...

CutAndPaste01 · March 4, 2003

Hi,

Can anyone point me to any threads on adding a requested delivery date and time to an order?

I'm ok at adding the fields into the backend database but need a few pointers as to how to make this "appear" on the order process, invoices & delivery notes etc.

Tx

March 15, 2003

I intend to use option type contribution to add delivery date and note card message but you said that in doesn't run under MS1..

What is MS1? I hope you don't mean Microsoft Explorer Browser as MSE is the browser most people are using.

March 15, 2003

MS1 is a "milestone" release of oscommerce version 2.2 - hopefully most of the contributions will be updated to this benchmark by their authors.... but it is a matter of time, some contributors simply don't have the time to do it, but as in the past, somebody else will usually update a contribution and re-contribute it... again, just a matter of time.

ashlyn · March 16, 2003

I added a couple of extra fields into my signup process but it was a bugger of a job.

I had to change or add lines to the following files:

account.php

account_edit.php

account_edit_process.php

address_book_process.php (which I just realised I didn't edit but should have)

catalog/create_account_process.php

catalog/includes/lanuages/english.php

and same for the admin files of same name.

I also changed 1 and added 2 more fields to the database to accomodate these.

If you want a step by step talkthrough, feel free to give me a yell and I'll try and help. I was doing it blindfolded though, trial and error. If you need fields to be compulsory, sorry, I'm still working on that one..

Megadart · March 21, 2003

Hi ashlyn ,

I am playing around at the same stuff , but I don`t get it to work , I need at least 2 add. fields for the customer?s signup page.

I tried the customer account number contribution , but I cant get it to write me to the DB.

Did you get your?s working in the meantime ?

Thank you for any hints

Michael

Irvin · June 29, 2004

Does anybody know whether this contribution has been released or not?

I'm also in need to add more fields to my customer signup from.

Modifying the codes in those files, adding more fields in the database, etc, etc seem so hard, just can't get them to work.

So let's hope somebody can come out with such 'add extra fields to signup form' contribution.

Cheers

harmhofstede · August 9, 2004

I'm also curious if this contrib is ready yet...

August 26, 2004

I have a similar but distinctly different problem.

I need to be able to price products (hotel rooms) by date ranges.

I am really not sure how to do this, or even how or where I would get it to display.

What I picture is when a product is selected it shows a picture with a drop down menu for selecting arrival and departure dates.

When the dates are selected the cart returns a price based on the total of each day's pricing.

Since room prices are determined by season, day of the week, (Weekends are sometimes more expensive), and special "Fair Days" (Local events) I am not certain how I would go about setting up the database.

I talked to a non osC programmer and he said it would take about 40 hours (@ $60 per) to do the db and php coding.

Does this sound right?

Any comments are most welcome.

TheArtsCoop · October 5, 2004

I'm looking for this same functionality; did you (or anyone) ever figure this out?

I've been messing around with the code in the checkout pages and can add a new field and pass values along to the confirmation page, but while doing so I lose the contents of the "comments" field.

Best,

- James

I would like to LEARN how to do it :lol: So I can customize my account information forms and collect additional information on checkout. I would like people to select a nonprofit organization to donate a percentage of their order total, or be able to tell me who they were referred by. So I guess this information can come when they sign up for an account.
So point me to the "where and how".

Debbie

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October 24, 2004

OK, this is one of the most important things to me right now to complete my move from an unreliable cart to osC. I'd love it if someone could teach me/us how to add a dropdown menu to the checkout page. I need customers to select a delivery date. Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!

October 25, 2004

OK, this is one of the most important things to me right now to complete my move from an unreliable cart to osC. I'd love it if someone could teach me/us how to add a dropdown menu to the checkout page. I need customers to select a delivery date. Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!

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You could add a dropdown delivery date to the produsts using product attributes

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