Adding a required field during Checkout that Shows on the Invoice

[Rabbcon]

Hello,

Let me start off by saying I do not know if I'm posting in the right category. I was unable to find an answer via a search. Forgive me for errors.

ISSUE
We are using an attribute on all of the products. This attribute is "Mail with Discretion" mwd. If a customer chooses to mwd they select "yes" to this attribute for every single product. This is a pain for them.

HOPE
Is there a way that we can create a required field in the checkout process that will ask this question (mwd) one time? Additionally, this information needs to be sent to us some how, via the invoice or an email alert that states this customer wants mwd.

HOW TO
If this is possible, how do we do it?

I look forward to your reply.

Thank you.

[Rabbcon]

**bump**

[kiddo]

You can easily modify the Optional Shipping Insurance mod to say Mail With Discretion instead. (even charge a bit extra for it if you wish.)

[Rabbcon]

Thanks Kiddo... You are right... I did not think about that. We already have that installed and we can just modify the code. :) Thank you so much!

[kiddo]

I think you would only have to do a little creative editing with the text so instead of saying the Insurance blah blah... the wording offers the special shipping instead.

Cheers!

[lotii10396]

Back to the original question, I would like to add a text field on the checkout confirmation for users to type in "Where they found us" - so obviously a simple yes/no field isn't going to work here.

I have modified the template file [ tpl_checkout_confirmation_default.php] to a. give me a new textarea b. run some javascript

I was *hoping* that I could just append this string to the "comments" hidden input field which is output earlier on the page. I *can* but it doesn't write it all to the database. bugger!

I am quite happy simply to append this data to the [ comments ] value, this keeps it pretty simple and doesn't require new database fields or the like.

But obviously this looks like it needs to be done some other way. If it cant be done dynamically with scripts then I gather I would need to modify the php code on the next executing page - so I was wondering if any ZC experts could point me to the next file.

Any recommendations (ie modify the array, or just append the inserted database value, or.....etc!) welcome.

Ta, Adrian