My Checkout Without Account Mod

jirkako:

Hello,

I have problem with COWOA. It shows me the link to continue without registration on the registration page (tpl_login_default.php), which is OK, but it links to .../index.php?main_page=FILENAME_NO_ACCOUNT

I read in this thread that the problem can be with the position of the code in the template file, but when I tried to upload original COWOA tpl_login_default.php it does the same error. :( Anyone could help please? Thank you.

Do you have includes\extra_datafiles\YOUR_TEMPLATE\no_account_filenames.php installed?

I suspected that this was your problem and I was able to replicate it when I removed that file from my folder, so I am assuming maybe your FTP didn't transfer this file properly (????).

I have a silly question.

Why isn't the Checkout Without Account in the downloads section?

Ok, now I'm going to go install this thing to see if it breaks my site. hmmm. Maybe I'll backup first. :yes:

I have a silly question.

Why isn't the Checkout Without Account in the downloads section?

Ok, now I'm going to go install this thing to see if it breaks my site. hmmm. Maybe I'll backup first. :yes:

birdoasis:

I have a silly question.

Why isn't the Checkout Without Account in the downloads section?

Ok, now I'm going to go install this thing to see if it breaks my site. hmmm. Maybe I'll backup first. :yes:

I'm not sure if KGZotU ever submitted it to them. Even if he submitted it right now, I'm not sure that they would approve it. I submitted my little hack ages ago and never even heard anything back, let alone a simple "No, because......"
I guess they have their reasons, although it would be nice to know what the prerequisites are.

Yes, PLEASE back up first!

sagivle1:

Hi everybody... i want that my zen cart will not have the option to create an account at all , i want only checkout without account , and i want it to be integrated with the VAT module , any ideas guys?
i really need help on that one...

Any ideas anyone?

sagivle1,

If you can figure out which file to change, just remove the login and new account content.

I don't know what file that is, and I have no idea what VAT is either.

:flex:

I uploaded to https://www.birdersbinoculars.com but I don't see the changes.

I followed the steps in the instruction manual, including changing the template folders name to the one I use, and the mysql patch, everything uploaded and patched fine.

However I still don't see the optional COWA option.

This is a fresh install of 1.3.8a. I have only one test customer, and one test product.

Any ideas?

i am pretty sure that you didnt change all of the MY_TEMPLATE folder into the name of your template...
you can go to that link :
http://birdersbinoculars.com/index.php?main_page=no_account
and see that your template does not know the COWOA.
check out the installation file.

I thought I got them all. DAD BURN IT! haha:cool:

That was it. Except now I have two instances of the COWA. It's acceptable, but I wonder if it would be confusing.

its just not proffesional , delete the files of the cowoa where you have installed it before , just keep your template settings...

birdoasis:

That was it. Except now I have two instances of the COWA. It's acceptable, but I wonder if it would be confusing.

I fixed this last night and added it to the zip file. For those that just need to download the one file to fix that (tpl_login_default.php), you can do that here:

updated tpl_login.zip

sagivle1:

Hi everybody... i want that my zen cart will not have the option to create an account at all , i want only checkout without account , and i want it to be integrated with the VAT module , any ideas guys?
i really need help on that one...

I also do not know what VAT is. Sorry! As far as making it a purely no account checkout, I suppose you could remove the fields from tpl_login_default.php located in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates that are associated with logging in and creating an account.

I removed those fields to see if it would work and was able to just have Guest Checkout appear. I checked out like normal and did not encounter any problems on the admin end or the customers end.

The tpl_login_default.php file containing those missing fields is here:

guest_only_checkout.zip

This file is only for 1.3.8 and for split-mode checkout. With this file, only guest checkout will appear. There are no log in fields and no "create an account" fields.

If you intend on making your site into a no account site, make sure you remove any link on your site about logging in. If you use the file above and someone clicks on a login link, if there is nothing in the cart then they will be taken to a blank login page. As with COWOA, the guest checkout will only appear when there is an item in the cart. You have more work do to, removing things throughout the site that would end up taking them to the login page. Its not impossible, I used to have a "no account" site. It's just a lot of fixing and testing. Good luck with the VAT thing!

craftzombie - I wanted to ask you, since you seem to be so quick and efficient at things, how do/did you upgrade your COWOA site? I do the Winmerge thing and compare changed files one by one, and upload one by one. I also have other mods installed, although they're minor, so I always dread doing upgrades. Do you have a quicker way of upgrading? Thanks!

P.S. You're really great! Everyone appreciates you for sort of taking over this mod!

KTNaturals:

craftzombie - I wanted to ask you, since you seem to be so quick and efficient at things, how do/did you upgrade your COWOA site? I do the Winmerge thing and compare changed files one by one, and upload one by one. I also have other mods installed, although they're minor, so I always dread doing upgrades. Do you have a quicker way of upgrading? Thanks!

P.S. You're really great! Everyone appreciates you for sort of taking over this mod!

Eek! I don't want to take over this mod!!! If only you knew how utterly dumb I am! Well, not THAT dumb, but I just don't know anything about PHP or SQL. I can however, after looking at it for so damn long, kind of make my way through it. Almost like someone armed with high school spanish visiting Mexico for the weekend, I can order a meal and ask where the bathroom is! And the library.

As far as upgrading, as with all things... I do them the hard way. Its my nature. I don't use WinMerge. I don't use an FTP program (unless its an entire Zen upgrade, in which case I use FileZilla). I upload the files one by one using my Windows Explorer window for file transfers. I am the wrong person to ask when it comes to doing things quicker!

Me being helpful is purely selfish. It just makes me feel good to help when I can. Plus, it helps me learn. Every valuable thing I learned about Zen Cart came from fu$@#&g it all up!!!

tnx for your reply craftzombie , but i am not working in either 1.3.8 and split-mode checkout. so i cant see any changes or a different result... :(
if you could help me on that one it will help me alot!!!!

KTNaturals:

craftzombie - I wanted to ask you, since you seem to be so quick and efficient at things, how do/did you upgrade your COWOA site? I do the Winmerge thing and compare changed files one by one, and upload one by one. I also have other mods installed, although they're minor, so I always dread doing upgrades. Do you have a quicker way of upgrading? Thanks!

I have a script which will unzip the zen distribution and COWA zip and automatically patch it. It's not much use for patching a live source code base with new versions of COWA but it at least allows me to take a vanilla zen zip and COWA and make a integrated build. The benefit of this is that if a new version of zen appears (and providing it doesn't massively break COWA) I can rebuild the site quickly. I tend to think I'd rather spend time writing an automated process to do things rather than do them manually as it repays you when you have to repeat that long process again.

sagivle1:

tnx for your reply craftzombie , but i am not working in either 1.3.8 and split-mode checkout. so i cant see any changes or a different result... :(
if you could help me on that one it will help me alot!!!!

What version of Zen are you using?

craftzombie:

What version of Zen are you using?

i am using zen cart v 1.3.7

Warning: It look like the SQL file that comes with this mod somehow breaks the required attributes functions!! Now customers can checkout without filling the required fields....(php 5.x/php 4.x - MySQL 4/5) It may not do this for you...

Anyway here is a Fix that I found else where on this forum and look like its working again now, just in case this does happened to you:

Please remember to backup your database before make any changes and best to use this code with phpadmin and not the Zen cart admin

INSERT INTO `configuration` VALUES ('', 'Product option type Select', 'PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_TYPE_SELECT', '0', 'The number representing the Select type of product option.', 0, NULL, '2007-03-19 17:57:39', '2007-03-19 17:57:39', NULL, NULL);
INSERT INTO `configuration` VALUES ('', 'Upload prefix', 'UPLOAD_PREFIX', 'upload_', 'Prefix used to differentiate between upload options and other options', 0, NULL, '2007-03-19 17:57:39', '2007-03-19 17:57:39', NULL, NULL);
INSERT INTO `configuration` VALUES ('', 'Text prefix', 'TEXT_PREFIX', 'txt_', 'Prefix used to differentiate between text option values and other option values', 0, NULL, '2007-03-19 17:57:39', '2007-03-19 17:57:39', NULL, NULL);
INSERT INTO `configuration` VALUES ('', 'Image Handler Version', 'IH_VERSION', '2.0', 'This is used by image handler to check if the database is up to date with uploaded image handler files.', 0, 100, NULL, '2007-06-06 16:47:03', NULL, 'zen_cfg_textarea_small(');