Changing the default payment option

[gdhgdh]

(ZC 1.3.7.1)

This has come up a couple of times, e.g. http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=305832

I also had the desire to auto-select whatever happened to be the first payment option in the list, but I did it in one line.

again, edit /includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_checkout_payment_default.php

Around line 138 change

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

so that it says this instead:

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

It takes advantage of the $i in the for() loop just above so logically "NOT $i" will always be boolean true for the first item in the list, and only the first item.

Have I missed something subtle? I tried it in conjunction with payment modules only being available for a certain zone / currency and it still seems to work fine :)

[DrByte]

Which payment modules do you have enabled?
Which one are you wanting it to default to?

It's not wise to blindly select one method vs another without letting the customer know you've possibly changed their previous selection ...
ie: navigating back and forth between checkout pages and/or changing addresses can cause available payment options to change ... and thus if you're automatically choosing a method for the customer, you could be causing trouble for them.

[gdhgdh]

I have 'check' 'nochex_apc' and 'paypal' ..

For my case, I want whatever module is displayed first to be auto-selected, and that's exactly what the one-line patch achieves in my testing - I just wondered if I'd missed something or made an incorrect assumption.

[ARRSE]

Cheers for that code - seems to work ok for me. (1.3.7.1)

[Beeunique]

Cheers - worked great for me too (again 1.3.7.1)
Wanted to get this sorted for ages - thanks