Checkout registration page

On the registration page it asks for 'Name' twice, is it possible to remove the top 'Name' field:


Also, do i need the joomla 'login' module installing?

On HikaShop commercial versions there is an option to remove the name/username/password/password2 fields from this form. Just the email and the address information will be left so that the user has less fields to fill. Now, if you just want to remove the name field, Joomla doesn't allow you to register a user without a name, so what you could do is use the username field value as the name. For that, change the view itself with the display->views menu. You can search for "login_register". In the view code, you could remove the label, change the field type to "hidden" and add the code to the username field. That way the name of the joomla user will use the username field value. You could also use a concatenation of the other fields value but that requires a bit more javascript code.

You don't need the joomla login module. The login area you see on the HikaShop checkout do not use it at all.

Thanks again! One more thing, is it possibe to change the text here:


I wanted to add something like 'Please check your junk mail' message.

You can edit that message in the translation file. You can edit the translation file in the config under the tab languages. This string should be near the top on the file, around line 60.

nicolas wrote:

You don't need the joomla login module. The login area you see on the HikaShop checkout do not use it at all.

How can a previous customer log in next time before they make another purchase?

Like I said, if you remove the joomla login module, the login screen will still be displayed on the checkout. They are not related. They just use the same login procedures once the user enter his information but these procedures are not in the joomla login module, they are in the joomla library. So your customers will still be able to login at the beginning of the checkout.

Also, you can still use the joomla login view even without the login module by creating a user login menu but that has nothing to do with HikaShop.

Hi!

I would like to try the trick with editing the "login_register" in the Display > View Code to use the username field value as the name, but I can't find the file (login_register). Has this changed since this topic was last commented?

Hi,

Yes, it's now the "registration" file of the view "user".

Thanks Nicolas, I found the file and did some changes, but obviously not the right one with my very limited skills... This is the first part of the file, can you please help me with how it should look like after the changes?:

*/
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
?>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="hikashop_contentpane">
<?php if(!$this->simplified_registration){ ?>
<tr class="hikashop_registration_name_line">
<td class="key">
<label id="namemsg" for="register_name">
<?php echo JText::_( 'HIKA_USER_NAME' ); ?>
</label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="data[register][name]" id="register_name" value="<?php echo $this->escape($this->mainUser->get( 'name' ));?>" class="inputbox required" maxlength="50" /> *
</td>
</tr>
<!-- <tr class="hikashop_registration_username_line">
<td class="key">
<label id="usernamemsg" for="register_username">
<?php echo JText::_( 'HIKA_USERNAME' ); ?>
</label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="register_username" name="data[register][username]" value="<?php echo $this->escape($this->mainUser->get( 'username' ));?>" class="inputbox required validate-username" maxlength="25" /> *
</td>
</tr> -->
<?php }?>

You should simply remove the whole
HikaShop will automatically put the address first and last names in the user name since a few versions.

I tried to delete the code, and it seems to work in the Joomla login module. But if I place a product in the basket and go to the check out page to register as a new customer there, I get the message that I need to fill in the user name. Any hint for a solution? (Using the "Email as Username"-plugin combined with making this work makes a really user friendly solution!)

Can you give the exact error message that you have ?

Here is a print screen of the message from the checkout page:

The code I told you to delete was for the name field. You apparently also deleted the username field.
That field is necessary for joomla.
If you want to use the email as username, you should change the option "registration" of the Checkout tab of the configuration to "simplified registration". That will remove automatically the name and username fields without any view modification and without any error.

"Simplified registration with password" and the "Email as Username" made it work just the way I wanted to! Perfect! Thank you for great help!