Adjust Login Switcher Page

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.3
-- PHP version -- : 5.x

Hello.
I need to adjust the login "switcher" page slightly. Basically, I will be changing the page to separate the login in to two more steps. Step 1 - user selects register, login or guest checkout and Step 2 - the process for their selection (See screenshot).
What view(s) will I need to edit in order to complete this and can you give me any tips.

I will most likely do this using javascript/CSS in order to avoid having to hack the actual php code much. The reason I think this will be hard to do in two steps is because I think your code is set up that it would be hard to submit the page.

Unless you can tell me how I add/edit views to the Hikashop component.

Hi,

To have it in two steps you will mainly have to edit the view "checkout / login".
In this view, edit the display to have what you want, and then add some checks on the current step ($this->step).

If the step is, for example, 1 so display the different options, if it is 2, hide the options but display the form.
In step 1, when selecting the desired method, you can store the value in session, this way when on the second step load the desired form. When clicking on a button of the first step, submit the whole checkout form to move to step 2.

It can potentially require the edition of core file regarding the checks made on the forms to see if the fields are filled or not.

Conclusion, there is a lot of changes to do.

How do I find these two files/data.

$this->loadTemplate('form');

JText::_('HIKA_REGISTRATION')

It looks like the registration form is loaded in the "login" view using

echo hikashop_getLayout('user','registration',$params,$js);

Thanks for your help on this I am getting there.

From this line in the checkout/login view

echo JHTML::_('hikaselect.radiolist',  $values, 'data[register][registration_method]', ' onchange="displayRegistration(this)"', 'value', 'text', $defaultSelection, false, false, true );

How do I tell which view is being called by the load template call. For example from the user/registration view there are calls for:

echo $this->loadTemplate('bootstrap');

$this->type = 'address';
		echo $this->loadTemplate();

Ok. Thanks. That makes sense. One last thing, if I want to add a view is that hard to do or would it be easier to just add the code to the existing pertinent view.

Hi.
I have completed most of the changes however I have a problem with Guest Checkout. When the guest form is submitted I get the message "Please enter a value for the field password" in an alert box. I have included attachments of the files I edited. If you could look it over and help me identify the problem that would be great. At very minimum I need to know where the function that displays that error is defined and/or where the function validates the fields. Any help would be much appreciated. The Login and the Registration parts work fine. The link to the test site is www.inkacollective.com/testing/consilium/

The only file I changed was the login view. I copy and pasted the javascript from the displayRegistration() function and modified it slightly for my uses, mainly just changing it so it got the value 2 and 3 from the div.id instead of the radio buttons. I left the extra code in there just to be safe. On a side note, in the part of the code where the js declaration is whenever I scroll to that section in the backend of joomla the screen freezes. I have tried copy and pasting from a text file to the login view as well.

Seemed to have figured it out. Just added back the login switcher radio list and hid it. Then added javascript code that switches the radio buttons when the custom divs are selected. That way it still calls hikashops field Check Function.