Preselect County in Create account

[RObW]

The Wiki Documentation gives two suggestions for pre-selecting the Country. The second option is great, but it means that if the customer submits the form and there are errors, the country reverts to the default. This can lead to customers getting frustrated if they don't realise the country changed again...

 

So, instead of the code in the documentation, use this:

 

catalog/create_account.php about line 442

 

Find:

 

echo tep_get_country_list('country')

 

Instead Replace With:

 

if (!isset($country)) $country='222'; echo tep_get_country_list('country')

 

Where 222 is the UK Country Code (replace with your desired country code).

 

The dropdown is now only set the first time, and not reset after that!

 

Cheers

Rob

[molafish]

good stuff.

But keep in mind you should also be doing this replacement in

 

/includes/modules/checkout_new_address.php about line 93

 

This will allow the address update routines in checkout_payment_address.php and checkout_shipping_address.php to have the same functionality.

 

The other file listed by the wiki doc you mentioned, address_book_process.php, seems an unnecessary replacement due to the fact that javascript is error checking the form and the page will not reload (and consequently not reset the country value) on a duplicate acount error.

 

But if you must edit this file, take care to keep the "$entry['entry_country_id']" in "tep_get_country_list('country', $entry['entry_country_id'])"

 

i.e. replace

echo tep_get_country_list('country', $entry['entry_country_id'])

with

if (!isset($country)) $country='223'; echo tep_get_country_list('country', $entry['entry_country_id'])

where '223' is your desired default country code...

 

I have also taken the ball and ran with it for the State field, because it falls victim to the same problems, so this would involve replacing the following text in the same files (scroll up about 10 lines):

 

replace

echo tep_draw_pull_down_menu('state', $zones_array);

with

echo tep_draw_pull_down_menu('state', $zones_array, $zones_array[$zone_id - 1]['id']);

 

Now if an error brings the user back to the entry page with something like "There is already a user with that email account," both the State and Country fields will not have reset to their default values.

 

Thus relieving precious customer frustration

[RObW]

Nice one Ian!

[stevel]

Also take a look at my Country-State Selector contribution, which handles this and related issues more cleanly.

[scranmer]

Just edit includes\functions\html_output.php and amend the following bit to default ALL country LOVs to your shops country.

 

HTH

 

Si.

 

 

////
// Creates a pull-down list of countries
 function tep_get_country_list($name, $selected = '', $parameters = '') {

//**si**
if ( strlen($selected)==0 ) $selected = STORE_COUNTRY;
//**si**

$countries_array = array(array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT));
$countries = tep_get_countries();

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($countries); $i<$n; $i++) {
  $countries_array[] = array('id' => $countries[$i]['countries_id'], 'text' => $countries[$i]['countries_name']);
}

return tep_draw_pull_down_menu($name, $countries_array, $selected, $parameters);
 }