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Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by Magento – Aggiungere campi personalizzati al form di registrazione — rickystra

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:46:56 +0000

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Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:18:24 +0000

Hi there -
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been able to get through steps 1 & 2, and even ran the sql query with success, but each time I test the create account form with the ‘company name’ field I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function setCompany() in /home/content/y/o/r/yorkchicago/html/store/app/code/core/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php on line 203

I pasted the exact code you had posted to Devin about above:
$customer = setCompany($this->getRequest()->getPost(’company’));

Any idea as to what this error means?

Thanks in advance

Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by jeff moore

jeff moore — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:06:23 +0000

Hi Chris – sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Any new fields that you create as described in this post should be editable in admin by definition. Essentially what we are doing in step 2 is extending the customer/customer entity model. The admin customer account information page (i.e. Customers | Manage Customers | Account Information) pulls in data from the customer/customer entity for view/edit; you can see this in Account.php (/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Customer/Edit/Tab/).
If one of your newly created fields isn’t editable in admin, one thing to check is the eav_attribute table for the field in question. Although I haven’t experimented with changing any of these fields directly, I would make sure that fields such as “is_global”, “is_visible” and “is_configurable” are all set to a value of “1″. Let me know if that doesn’t do the trick.

Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by groltz

groltz — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:35:18 +0000

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Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by Chris Cox

Chris Cox — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:40:06 +0000

How would I go about ensuring that the Company field is editable in the admin under Manage Customers too?

Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by jeff moore

jeff moore — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:29:41 +0000

@Devin Olsen Hi Devin, thanks for the question. In step 3 we are simply retrieving the form-fields we just added in step 1; therefore in the createPostAction() function (AccountController.php about line 185+ in Magento 1.2x) we want to add a couple of lines taking the data from post and accumulating it in variable $customer (I mistakenly used “setOccupation” instead of “setCompany” in the original post, but the idea is the same).

Another way to write this would be as follows:
$customer = Mage::getModel(‘customer/customer’)->setId(null);
$customer = setCompany($this->getRequest()->getPost(‘company’));
…

Hope that helps — let me know! Thanks.

Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by Devin Olsen

Devin Olsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:31:12 +0000

Hey I am trying to follow this tutorial and I am having problems with step number three. Could you explain a little bit more at how one is suppose to incorporate “Mage::getModel(’customer/customer’)->setOccupation($this->getRequest()->getPost(’” into AccountController.php

Its kind of vague as to where exactly where one should insert that line of code into the function createPostAction(), especially when the string of code is cut off at the end..

Any help is much appreciated my friend!

Comment on Adding Fields to the Default Magento Registration Form by KrisBelucci

KrisBelucci — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:48:50 +0000

Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!

Comment on Aptalent’s e-commerce system helps maximize your SEO strategy by Dan Waldron

Dan Waldron — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:16:35 +0000

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Sun, 24 May 2009 22:54:55 +0000

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