Shipping forgotten when first address is entered

I use a different registration form to Hikashop's because my site is also a social network. This registration process does not include an address, so I was delighted to see that when a user checkout's out who hasn't already specified a Hikashop address, Hikashop pops up a nice little box saying, "please fill in an address". The problem is that when this is done, the previously filled out shipping info is lost and has to be reentered, confusing the process rather.

To clarify - my checkout process is: shipping, login, address, payment. So a user can fill out shipping, log into Hikashop for the first time, get the address popup (with the shipping info still visible in the background), but as soon as the user clicks Ok on the address pop-up, this shipping info is lost and they are required to re-enter it and step through the checkout from stage one again.

Is there an easy (ish) fix to this. I don't mind hacking some php if you could point me in the right direction. What might be causing this?

-- url of the page with the problem -- : claycellar.co.uk
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.0
-- Joomla version -- : 2.5.14

Many thanks,

Jonathan

Hi,
Since HikaShop 2.3.0 you can change the way the address must be filled.
You have to change the value of the option "Address selector" in Configuration > Checkout > Shipping & Payment.

Hi Xavier,

Thanks for this, using a different address input method does solve the problem.

But I quite like the pop-up method and have already formatted the site to use the popup method. Is there no way of fixing it so it also works? Every time you add a new address with the popup, the shipping information is lost. This surely shouldn't happen?

Jonathan

I appear to have solved the problem by deleting lines 196-198 of the file: components/com_hikashop/controllers/address.php, which are:

$app->setUserState(HIKASHOP_COMPONENT.'.shipping_data', null);
		$app->setUserState(HIKASHOP_COMPONENT.'.shipping_method', null);
		$app->setUserState(HIKASHOP_COMPONENT.'.shipping_id', null);