My Checkout Without Account Mod

[ariasparkle]

Ok got it in but now my customers still have to creat an account. It goes to the create account page.
ariasparkle.com.

[ariasparkle]

Ok it seems to work but if some one can test it for me i would appreciate it. Thank YOU, Callie

[deathsdoor]

Hi Guys loving the mod. Ive hacked at it a bit and am still working out some small issues. The main issue im having right now is that it is not passing information over to paypal. Is this something it should be doing?

thanks in advance.

ow sites www.unitmodels.com

[deathsdoor]

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ok i was using express checkout instead of IPN... my only problem is that express gives me a nice look where as ipn is ending my customers up on this badly formatted version of paypal ipn http://www.unitmodels.com/lol.jpg

is this a cowoa issue or something else?? thanks in advance.. ow and on a side note clicking the back button and then forward button back onto paypal fixes the formatting......

[craftzombie]

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ok i was using express checkout instead of IPN... my only problem is that express gives me a nice look where as ipn is ending my customers up on this badly formatted version of paypal ipn http://www.unitmodels.com/lol.jpg

is this a cowoa issue or something else?? thanks in advance.. ow and on a side note clicking the back button and then forward button back onto paypal fixes the formatting......

The only difference between COWOA and regular checkout is a page called no_account. Customers are entering their name, address, etc. on a page that is not requiring a password. Every other step of checkout is the same. There should be no problems with any payment methods that the regular checkout would do fine with. If its not going to work with regular checkout, than it won't work with COWOA.

Any formatting issues would have to do with your browser or PayPal.

[deathsdoor]

thanks zombie. I tested in ie and all is fine might be a ff issue...... something strange is deffo going on with the formatting..... Im just trying to figure out the returning customer problem im having. Ill read the documentation a bit more but the issue im tackling is the whole (returning customer email/password) thing. if you can point me in the right direction id appreciate it :) but ill read the previous posts/google for a bit and see if i can figure it out myself :)

Thanks Zombie :)

actually i may have deleted the section to sign up when i was killing paypal express with my axe..... lol. ill work on that.

[deathsdoor]

yep newbie mistake - i wrecked tpl_login_default.php . re-uploaded and back to normal so people can sign up. i really like this mod keep up the good work craft :). TY.

[eugenebarnes]

Just installed COWOA into a test store that was just upgraded to 1.3.8a. Everything works until you fill in the "no account" page information. Clicking continue gives me a blank page instead of the payment information page. The URL looks ok... any ideas?

Test store is here: Test Store Link

TIA

[craftzombie]

Just installed COWOA into a test store that was just upgraded to 1.3.8a. Everything works until you fill in the "no account" page information. Clicking continue gives me a blank page instead of the payment information page. The URL looks ok... any ideas?

Test store is here: Test Store Link

TIA

I created an account and still had the same problem. Its not just with COWOA. Maybe some files didn't upload properly during the upgrade? It happens all the time.

[pinkchalkstudio]

I'm preparing to install this mod. I compared all of my files to the overwrites directlory. I will need to hand modify three files. The first one I'm looking at is tpl_header.php.

The directions for making modifications by hand shows a single change:

FIND:
-

<li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT; ?></a></li>


-

REPLACE WITH:
-

<?php if (!($_SESSION['COWOA'])) { ?>
    <li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT; ?></a></li><?php } ?>

-

When I compare my file to the COWOA overwrite file I have two references to FILENAME_ACCOUNT within the navigation display piece:

<!--bof-navigation display-->
      <div id="navMainWrapper">
        <div id="navMainSearch">
          <?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'sideboxes/search_header.php'); ?>
        </div>
        <div id="navMain">
          <ul>
            <li><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">'; ?><span><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG; ?></span></a></li>
            <?php if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) { ?>
            <li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><span><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF; ?></span></a></li>
            <li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><span><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT; ?></span></a></li>
            <?php
      } else {
        if (STORE_STATUS == '0') {
?>
            <li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><span><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_LOGIN; ?></span></a></li>
            <li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><span><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT; ?></span></a></li>
            <?php } } ?>
            <li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART, '', 'NONSSL'); ?>"><span><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CART_CONTENTS; ?></span></a></li>
            <li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><span class="last"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CHECKOUT; ?></span></a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>
      </div>
      <!--eof-navigation display-->

I'm using the cherry zen template. My question is: will I also need to add in the COWOA logic on that second reference to FILENAME_ACCOUNT?

Another difference between my file and the COWOA version is that the COWOA version has the following code at the beginning of the file:

<?php
  // Display all header alerts via messageStack:
  if ($messageStack->size('header') > 0) {
    echo $messageStack->output('header');
  }
  if (isset($_GET['error_message']) && zen_not_null($_GET['error_message'])) {
  echo htmlspecialchars(urldecode($_GET['error_message']));
  }
  if (isset($_GET['info_message']) && zen_not_null($_GET['info_message'])) {
   echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['info_message']);
} else {

}
?>

I don't see that as needing to be added in the overwrite by hand directions.

I'm not a programmer so I apologize about the simplistic nature of these questions. I just don't want to cause myself problems by doing this wrong.

Thank you,
Kathy