My Checkout Without Account Mod

I thought I got them all. DAD BURN IT! haha:cool:

That was it. Except now I have two instances of the COWA. It's acceptable, but I wonder if it would be confusing.

its just not proffesional , delete the files of the cowoa where you have installed it before , just keep your template settings...

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Originally Posted by birdoasis

That was it. Except now I have two instances of the COWA. It's acceptable, but I wonder if it would be confusing.

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I fixed this last night and added it to the zip file. For those that just need to download the one file to fix that (tpl_login_default.php), you can do that here:

updated tpl_login.zip

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Originally Posted by sagivle1

Hi everybody... i want that my zen cart will not have the option to create an account at all , i want only checkout without account , and i want it to be integrated with the VAT module , any ideas guys?
i really need help on that one...

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I also do not know what VAT is. Sorry! As far as making it a purely no account checkout, I suppose you could remove the fields from tpl_login_default.php located in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates that are associated with logging in and creating an account.

I removed those fields to see if it would work and was able to just have Guest Checkout appear. I checked out like normal and did not encounter any problems on the admin end or the customers end.

The tpl_login_default.php file containing those missing fields is here:

guest_only_checkout.zip

This file is only for 1.3.8 and for split-mode checkout. With this file, only guest checkout will appear. There are no log in fields and no "create an account" fields.

If you intend on making your site into a no account site, make sure you remove any link on your site about logging in. If you use the file above and someone clicks on a login link, if there is nothing in the cart then they will be taken to a blank login page. As with COWOA, the guest checkout will only appear when there is an item in the cart. You have more work do to, removing things throughout the site that would end up taking them to the login page. Its not impossible, I used to have a "no account" site. It's just a lot of fixing and testing. Good luck with the VAT thing!

craftzombie - I wanted to ask you, since you seem to be so quick and efficient at things, how do/did you upgrade your COWOA site? I do the Winmerge thing and compare changed files one by one, and upload one by one. I also have other mods installed, although they're minor, so I always dread doing upgrades. Do you have a quicker way of upgrading? Thanks!

P.S. You're really great! Everyone appreciates you for sort of taking over this mod!

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Originally Posted by KTNaturals

craftzombie - I wanted to ask you, since you seem to be so quick and efficient at things, how do/did you upgrade your COWOA site? I do the Winmerge thing and compare changed files one by one, and upload one by one. I also have other mods installed, although they're minor, so I always dread doing upgrades. Do you have a quicker way of upgrading? Thanks!

P.S. You're really great! Everyone appreciates you for sort of taking over this mod!

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Eek! I don't want to take over this mod!!! If only you knew how utterly dumb I am! Well, not THAT dumb, but I just don't know anything about PHP or SQL. I can however, after looking at it for so damn long, kind of make my way through it. Almost like someone armed with high school spanish visiting Mexico for the weekend, I can order a meal and ask where the bathroom is! And the library.

As far as upgrading, as with all things... I do them the hard way. Its my nature. I don't use WinMerge. I don't use an FTP program (unless its an entire Zen upgrade, in which case I use FileZilla). I upload the files one by one using my Windows Explorer window for file transfers. I am the wrong person to ask when it comes to doing things quicker!

Me being helpful is purely selfish. It just makes me feel good to help when I can. Plus, it helps me learn. Every valuable thing I learned about Zen Cart came from fu$@#&g it all up!!!

tnx for your reply craftzombie , but i am not working in either 1.3.8 and split-mode checkout. so i cant see any changes or a different result... :(
if you could help me on that one it will help me alot!!!!

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Originally Posted by KTNaturals

craftzombie - I wanted to ask you, since you seem to be so quick and efficient at things, how do/did you upgrade your COWOA site? I do the Winmerge thing and compare changed files one by one, and upload one by one. I also have other mods installed, although they're minor, so I always dread doing upgrades. Do you have a quicker way of upgrading? Thanks!

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I have a script which will unzip the zen distribution and COWA zip and automatically patch it. It's not much use for patching a live source code base with new versions of COWA but it at least allows me to take a vanilla zen zip and COWA and make a integrated build. The benefit of this is that if a new version of zen appears (and providing it doesn't massively break COWA) I can rebuild the site quickly. I tend to think I'd rather spend time writing an automated process to do things rather than do them manually as it repays you when you have to repeat that long process again.

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Originally Posted by sagivle1

tnx for your reply craftzombie , but i am not working in either 1.3.8 and split-mode checkout. so i cant see any changes or a different result... :(
if you could help me on that one it will help me alot!!!!

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What version of Zen are you using?