Auto-Check Credit Card Option

[needainstall]

Hey - just wondering how I would have the credit card option group auto-selected on the payment page.

I have several types of payments available, and none are selected by default.

I have customers tell me that they enter their credit card info then press next only to find that they missed the select option for choosing credit card as their payment method.

I poked around a bit earlier but the code in the particular area that generates the payment info for checkout is more involved than I have experience with.

I did search the forum but with no luck.

ZC 1.3.8a

[DrByte]

Out-of-the-box, Zen Cart *will* auto-check the radio button next to the credit-card input fields as soon as the customer clicks in them to enter their credit card number.
Perhaps you're using older addons which don't have the new code in them?
For the auto-check logic to work, the module needs to have the proper javascript triggers in the module code, and the javascript needs to exist on the checkout_payment page (which it does in a default install).

[needainstall]

Very possible. Over time I think there may be a dozen or more mods installed. And that doesn't count my own tinkering.

Now that I know that it should be selected by default, I'll do some comparisons between current and original files and see if I can find what needs to be changed.

I appreciate the input.

[fbroz]

I am running into this problem as well, thanks for the insight Dr. Byte. I wasn't sure where to look for fix this problem correctly, so I hardcoded my credit card payment method as the default and thought others might like to do the same. I found this section of code in tpl_checkout_payment_default.php:

<?php echo zen_draw_radio_field('payment', $selection[$i]['id'], ($selection[$i]['id'] == $_SESSION['payment'] ? true : false), 'id="pmt-'.$selection[$i]['id'].'"'); ?>

and replaced it with:

<?php echo zen_draw_radio_field('payment', $selection[$i]['id'], ($selection[$i]['id'] == 'your_payment_gateway_name_here'), 'id="pmt-'.$selection[$i]['id'].'"'); ?>

where your_payment_gateway_name_here is replaced with the name of your particular payment gateway. You can find the name of your payment gateway by viewing the source of your checkout payment page and looking for:

<input type="radio" name="payment"

the name of your payment gateway is directly after that.