All fields deleted when one required field is missing during sign in.

If one required field is missing when creating a new account, all of the entered fields are deleted and a new page is opened with a message such as: Please choose a salutation.

This, I find to be extremely annoying. I was wondering if anyone knows how to arrange it so that all of the entered fields remain as they have already been entered.

Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance.

Version 1.3.8a German and English

Do you get the same result in both languages?

clueless_in_berlin:

If one required field is missing when creating a new account, all of the entered fields are deleted and a new page is opened with a message such as: Please choose a salutation.

This, I find to be extremely annoying. I was wondering if anyone knows how to arrange it so that all of the entered fields remain as they have already been entered.

Can anyone help me here? Thanks in advance.

Version 1.3.8a German and English

That's because the input fields do not contain the variables for the information being input:

You can see this from the line of code below (the highlighted portion)

<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('firstname', '', zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CUSTOMERS, 'customers_firstname', '40') . ' id="firstname"') . (zen_not_null(ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_TEXT) ? '<span class="alert">' . ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?>

What you need is the following:

<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('firstname', $firstname, zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CUSTOMERS, 'customers_firstname', '40') . ' id="firstname"') . (zen_not_null(ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_TEXT) ? '<span class="alert">' . ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?>

This now contains the variable for the first name and will hold that information whatever it is.

What you'll need to do is open includes/templates/template_default/tpl_modules_create_account.php

and add the variables for each and every input field (similar to the above)

You shouldn't need any code changes - The code should already remember the fields even if you have to correct an error or missed a blank.

hi toe, thanks for the quick response. The answer is yes I get the same result in both languages. I am now working on what Clyde has recommended.

clydejones:

That's because the input fields do not contain the variables for the information being input:

You can see this from the line of code below (the highlighted portion)

> 
> 
> What you need is the following:
> 
> ```
<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('firstname', $firstname, zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CUSTOMERS, 'customers_firstname', '40') . ' id="firstname"') . (zen_not_null(ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_TEXT) ? '<span class="alert">' . ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?>

This now contains the variable for the first name and will hold that information whatever it is.

What you'll need to do is open includes/templates/template_default/tpl_modules_create_account.php

and add the variables for each and every input field (similar to the above)

Hi, thanks for the quick answer. I am going to try this out right now. One problem though. I didn´t find the file under includes/templates/template_default. I only found includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_create_account.php. Is that a problem?

Also, is this something I should be doing with the override system so that updates won´t be a problem? If so, could you please help me out with the file path? Would it be includes/templates/template_default/templates/MY_TEMPLATE/tpl_modules_create_account.php?

Thanks for the help.

o.k. so I did what clydejones recommended and it worked ... for the most part. Thanks Clyde

I have presently one problem though. I can´t get the radio button for the gender to work. When I have the "Mr." selected, it switches it to "Ms." when the page is reloaded. Below is the code from my includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_create_account.php:

In the code above, I replaced ' ' with $gender. That´s the only change I made. Is there something else I can do to make it work properly?

I also have another related question. I added the variables for the "password" and "confirm password" fields. Now the code remembers these fields when another field is blank or incorrect, and fills it in automatically. Does this create a security problem? Should the customer always have to re-enter the password and confirm password? Or is it o.k. if these fields are also remembered?

Thanks in advance for any help!

oops, oops, oops ... wait a minute. I just changed the $gender back to '' and it is now working properly. So the original code for the gender was correct.

So the first part of my last post can be ignored, but if someone has an answer to the second part regarding the "password" and "password confirm" fields, I would love to hear it.

Thanks.