Use both first and last name in customer greeting?

[rschram]

Can anyone help explain how I can greet a customer using both their first and last names instead of just their first? Thanks!

 

For example: "Welcome back John Smith!" instead of "Welcome back John!"

 

I see the following line in /includes/languages/english.php

define('TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL', 'Welcome back <span class="greetUser">%s!</span>');

 

and I see the following function in /includes/functions/general.php

// Return a customer greeting
 function tep_customer_greeting() {
   global $customer_id, $customer_first_name;

   if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_first_name') && tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {
     $greeting_string = sprintf(TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL, tep_output_string_protected($customer_first_name), tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_NEW));
   } else {
     $greeting_string = sprintf(TEXT_GREETING_GUEST, tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'), tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'));
   }

   return $greeting_string;
 }

[germ]

////
// Return a customer greeting
 function tep_customer_greeting() {
global $customer_id, $customer_first_name;

if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_first_name') && tep_session_is_registered('customer_id')) {

// added / modified code required to get last name and put in greeting
  $name_query = tep_db_query("select customers_lastname  from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_id = '" . (int)$customer_id . "'");
  $name = tep_db_fetch_array($name_query);
  $greeting_string = sprintf(TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL, tep_output_string_protected($customer_first_name) . ' ' . tep_output_string_protected($name['customers_lastname']) , tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_NEW));

//

// original code below
//	$greeting_string = sprintf(TEXT_GREETING_PERSONAL, tep_output_string_protected($customer_first_name), tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_NEW));
} else {
  $greeting_string = sprintf(TEXT_GREETING_GUEST, tep_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'), tep_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'));
}

return $greeting_string;
 }

I tried this.

 

It worked for me.

[rschram]

Thanks Jim... worked great!

[burt]

Possibly a little more compact and portable way to do this would be to amend login.php as so;

 

Find:

$check_customer_query = tep_db_query("select customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_password, customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_email_address = '" . tep_db_input($email_address) . "'");

 

Change to:

$check_customer_query = tep_db_query("select customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_lastname, customers_password, customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_email_address = '" . tep_db_input($email_address) . "'");

 

Find:

$customer_first_name = $check_customer['customers_firstname'];

 

Change to:

$customer_first_name = $check_customer['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $check_customer['customers_lastname'];

 

I'm not sure where else $customer_first_name is used off the top of my head - so my method might be unsuitable - is it used anywhere? Possibly in the account section somewhere?