Customer Last Name

HALP!

I'm stuck in a loop here guys. This seems very rudimentary, and I've found a few threads that seem to answer my exact problem, but the code isn't working when I try to implement it.

I want a customer greeting to read:

"Logged in as First name Last name."

I have at the moment:

Logged in as <?php echo zen_output_string_protected($_SESSION['customer_first_name']); ?> <?php echo zen_output_string_protected($_SESSION['customer_last_name']); ?>.

The first name is working, but the last name isn't.

I've checked the modules/pages/login/header_php.php, and last name IS being checked into $_SESSION.

Sorry to ask a dumb question, but I've been failing for hours.

-Chris

Where, as in what file, have you added that too?

The header for my custom template:

includes/templates/my template name/common/tpl_header.php

-Chris

Seems to work fine for me ...

Can you grab the code around it such as 5 lines above and 5 lines below and post it?

Logged in as <a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>" style="padding:0px;"><?php echo zen_output_string_protected($_SESSION['customer_first_name']); ?> <?php echo zen_output_string_protected($address['lastname']); ?>.</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Is there a cleaner way to paste code? This is my first time EVER on a development forum... I fear this will post completely unreadable.

-Chris

Your code is using:

zen_output_string_protected($address['lastname'])

how about trying the session variable you asked about:

$_SESSION['customer_last_name']

See if that works better for you ... :smile:

Sorry I posted the wrong code. That was some fail thread that said to call $address. Which didn't work.

It was meant to be this:

<div id="navMain">
	<ul class="back" style="color:#c50006">
		<?php if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) { ?>
				<li style="float:left; font-size:14px;"">Logged in as <a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>" style="padding:0px;"><?php echo zen_output_string_protected($_SESSION['customer_first_name']); ?> <?php echo zen_output_string_protected($_SESSION['customer_last_name']); ?>.</a></li>
	</ul>
</div>

... which still isn't working my end. :'(

Your code works great for me ...

Can you peek in the:
/includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php

do you have this code on around line 87:

        $_SESSION['customer_last_name'] = $check_customer->fields['customers_lastname'];

Can you check the account that you are working with and make sure that there is a lastname set on it?

Could you also check in phpMyAdmin for the table:
address_book

and make sure that there is a last name in the field:
entry_lastname

for that customer?

I have that exact code on my line 87 of header_php.php.

Also checked there is definitely a lastname set. It shows up in the account settings and if I call the full address label.
And it shows up in the Active Users in the site admin.

Totally bamboozled! :p

Just for giggles and grins ... could we perhaps have a peek at your site?

It's hosted locally for now, as the project is all of about 7 hours old!

Could that be an issue? Maybe the session needed refreshing? Although I didn't add that line 87, it was there by default, so the lastname should already be called, right?

Well I'll be damned.

The whole "turn it off, turn it back on again" just totally worked. I logged out, and logged back in, and there is my surname in all its glory.

Bizarre. Like I said, I didn't add the last_name call, so it should have already been in SESSION data, but hey. It's there now.

Sorry to waste your time!! But thank you so much!

-Chris

No idea ... I don't have your site to test ... only you do ...

Have you tried for additional giggles to create a new account?

Are you sure that the code you are testing has the right code in it?