Is a Permanent Login (Auto-Login) Possible?

• [STORE_ROOT]/includes/modules/pages/login/header.php
• [STORE_ROOT]/includes/modules/create_account.php

1. first of all, add a checkbox to your login-form called something like "permLogin".
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2. edit the file "/includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php"
   if the login is ok, zencart will proceed to the beyond line 57 and does all the stuff around line 70. just after this we hook in. put that code there:
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   if (!empty($_REQUEST["permLogin"])) {
   ___ unset($c);
   ___ $c[] = $_SESSION['customer_id'];
   ___ $c[] = $_SESSION['customer_default_address_id'];
   ___ $c[] = $_SESSION['customers_authorization'];
   ___ $c[] = $_SESSION['customer_first_name'];
   ___ $c[] = $_SESSION['customer_last_name'];
   ___ $c[] = $_SESSION['customer_country_id'];
   ___ $c[] = $_SESSION['customer_zone_id'];
   ___ $c[] = $check_customer->fields['customers_password'];
   
   ___ $c_str = implode("~~~", $c);
   ___ setcookie("zencart_cookie_permlogin", $c_str, time()+36000000);
   }
   ___
   this will store all the relevant information in the cookie.
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3. edit the file "/includes/modules/pages/index/header_php.php"
   if you start your zencart, this page will be loaded. here we check if the login is set and if, then we login automatically.
   at the very top of that file, just after "$zco_notifier..." add this code:
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   if (substr_count($_COOKIE["zencart_cookie_permlogin"], "~~~") > 1) {
   ___ if (empty($_SESSION['customer_id'])) {
   ______ $c = explode("~~~", $_COOKIE["zencart_cookie_permlogin"]);
   
   ______ $q = "SELECT customers_password FROM " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " WHERE customers_id=" . $c[0];
   ______ $r = $db->Execute($q);
   
   ______ $pw_cookie = zen_db_prepare_input($c[7]);
   ______ $pw_zencart = $r->fields['customers_password'];
   
   ______ if ($pw_cookie == $pw_zencart) {
   _________ $_SESSION['customer_id'] = $c[0];
   _________ $_SESSION['customer_default_address_id'] = $c[1];
   _________ $_SESSION['customers_authorization'] = $c[2];
   _________ $_SESSION['customer_first_name'] = $c[3];
   _________ $_SESSION['customer_last_name'] = $c[4];
   _________ $_SESSION['customer_country_id'] = $c[5];
   _________ $_SESSION['customer_zone_id'] = $c[6];
   _________ $_SESSION['cart']->restore_contents();
   ______ }
   ___ }
   }
   

add a checkbox to your login-form called something like "permLogin".

1. copy the file "includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_login_default.php" to "your_template_dir/templates/tpl_login_default.php"
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2. in this file the login box is around line 50. just there add the checkbox with a code like that:
   "<input id="permLogin" name="permLogin" type="checkbox" checked> stay logged in"

1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
in:
[SELECT customers_password FROM zen_customers WHERE customers_id=]

if (substr_count($_COOKIE["zencart_cookie_permlogin"], "~~~") > 1) {
		if (empty($_SESSION['customer_id'])) {
			$c = explode("~~~", $_COOKIE["zencart_cookie_permlogin"]);

			$q = "SELECT customers_password FROM " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " WHERE customers_id=" . $c[0];
			$r = $db->Execute($q);

			$pw_cookie = zen_db_prepare_input($c[7]);
			$pw_zencart = $r->fields['customers_password'];

			if ($pw_cookie == $pw_zencart) {
				$_SESSION['customer_id'] = $c[0];
				$_SESSION['customer_default_address_id'] = $c[1];
				$_SESSION['customers_authorization'] = $c[2];
				$_SESSION['customer_first_name'] = $c[3];
				$_SESSION['customer_last_name'] = $c[4];
				$_SESSION['customer_country_id'] = $c[5];	
				$_SESSION['customer_zone_id'] = $c[6];
				$_SESSION['cart']->restore_contents();
			}
		}
	}

does all the stuff around line 70. just after this we hook in. put that code there