Minimum Customer Account Information - Support Thread

[picandnix]

picandnix, I've looked at the inclusion of the "Country" field before and it's not an easy "fix"; I'll check it out and let you know.

...a friendly nudge in the right direction

[lat9]

...a friendly nudge in the right direction

picandnix, I'm not ignoring you ... really! Things got busy and the Country field addition turns out to be a bit of a pain since it's in the customer address table rather than the customer information table in the database.

[picandnix]

picandnix, I'm not ignoring you ... really! Things got busy and the Country field addition turns out to be a bit of a pain since it's in the customer address table rather than the customer information table in the database.

Thank you Lat9, I appreciate you simply looking into the potential.
Please don't feel rushed or pressured, I'm looking at it as being a bonus feature/option on a brilliant modification/add-on.

[picandnix]

Another request for any future update please;
when one is llogged in as customer and viewing account details the option to view and change customer address seems to be active and available.

Thank you Lat9

[lat9]

Another request for any future update please;
when one is llogged in as customer and viewing account details the option to view and change customer address seems to be active and available.

Hmm, I'm not seeing that on my test site and, given my past record, I checked the latest zip-file to make sure that the changes were there ... and they are! Did you possibly install another plugin that overwrote the changes to /includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_account_default.php?

[picandnix]

Hmm, I'm not seeing that on my test site and, given my past record, I checked the latest zip-file to make sure that the changes were there ... and they are! Did you possibly install another plugin that overwrote the changes to /includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_account_default.php?

"a picture tells a thousand words..." so here's a picture of me blushing in shame

[picandnix]

A thought for taking this awesome mod forwards; ZC 1.6 is due to have COWOA written into it, is it possible to include COWOA into this mod too? I've had a go myself just out of interest but ran into one file where I struggled to merge.

Any thoughts on adding countries as an optional display requirement yet?

[lat9]

picandnix, once v1.6.0 is released I'll include the COWOA path into Minimum Customer Account Information. I'll give the optional Country inclusion a look at that time as well.

[picandnix]

picandnix, once v1.6.0 is released I'll include the COWOA path into Minimum Customer Account Information. I'll give the optional Country inclusion a look at that time as well.

Cool thank you, I'll stop bugging you now

[lat9]

picandnix, I've looked at the inclusion of the "Country" field before and it's not an easy "fix"; I'll check it out and let you know.

OK, it took me a while but I looked and wasn't as difficult as I thought. I was also prompted to add the "Country" field because I noticed a slew of PHP (5.4+) debug log files when my customers went through checkout with PayPal Express Checkout:

PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'id' in <mysite info>/vinos/includes/modules/payment/paypalwpp.php on line 996

... which were due to a NULL entry_country_id being written to the address_book table.

I've submitted v1.3.0 to the Plugins area; it should be available there shortly. Features:

1. Added the capability to require the customer's country during account creation via admin configuration setting.
2. If the country is enabled, a customer can choose the value during account creation and change it using their account_edit page.
3. If the country is not enabled, the entry_country_id field in each customer's address record is set to the "Default Create Account Country ID".
4. The first time someone accesses your admin after you copy the files, any 0-value entry_country_id fields in your database's address_book table are set to your store's "Default Create Account Country ID".
5. Since the country is a demographic item only, it's not displayed on a customer invoice.