Add a field to shipping page (checkout)

Afternoon all,

I searched the forums and have not found anything on this yet and was wondering if anyone could point me to a post on this or help me out in this post. My problem is that I need to add a field in the shipping page within the checkout process that allows someone to select whether or not a liftgate or palletjack is required for delivery on an item (i.e.- if they purchase a skid of something). If anyone has any ideas on this, would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more info, let me know.

Thanks for your time,
cmiller

Wouldn't that be better as a attribute for the item ordered? Or perhaps you could use the Comments field that is already on the page?

Thanks Kim, I guess that would make more sense to add that as an attribute, didn't think about that one. Once again thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to play with that.

Kim,

Is there a field in the database somewhere for comments? I tried searching in phpmyadmin and didn't see anything and also tried searching in the developers tool kit to no avail. if you could point me to the spot, would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
cmiller

comments collected during checkout are stored in the orders table

I am in phpmyadmin within the orders table, and i see no field for comments in there. Upon further looking, I did find a comments field in orders_status_history. Is this the one i'm looking for or is that comments to something else other than the checkout?