My Checkout Without Account Mod

ecmauto:

Hi all,
COWOA still not working. I have tried everything suggested so far , and thank you all for the great help , but I still can not get that 3rd option "COWOA" to appear on the login/create account page.
I would sure appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you, Jim
https://ecmauto.com

If you "view source" on your login page, there is no cowoa code there. I think that you are not uploading the files correctly. The only thing that can be done, aside from me actually installing it for you, is for you to try again. I just think, based on some of your other posts, that you aren't up to par yet on the override system.

craftzombie,
Might you have time to do thi snstall for version 1.3.7.1? If so Please respond in PM for quote ..;}

I really want to install this but after losing a whole site last week and starting from scratch i'm not sure.

It's the sql patch i'm more worried about as i really don't want to go into the MySQL section of my control panel and try and remove or alter anything. Backing up and replacing old files isn't a problem.

So a quick question....If i try installing this and something goes wrong or i decide i would rather not use it then how easy is it to uninstall ( imagine i am a novice user )

I already have a full MySQL backup and a full site backup as well as all the site files downloaded onto my desktop.

I would love to install this but like i said i first want to know how easy it is to uninstall ?

Mal2869:

It's the sql patch i'm more worried about

I think the SQL patch is the least to worry about. Most of them are just adding tables to the database that may or may not be used if you decide to go ahead and use the mod. Its the files themselves that I think are more important to replace if you decide not to use a mod.

There isn't much SQL code for this mod. I do not know how to uninstall it the easy way through the admin. I use a ton of mods and out of all of them, only one of them came with an uninstall.sql file. I think if it was absolutely necessary to remove the code, the mod authors would've provided an uninstall file. (???)

Anyway, your shop shouldn't be all messed up should you decide not to use COWOA. Especially since you backed up your database. You can leave the SQL info in there and it won't hurt anything.

craftzombie:

If you "view source" on your login page, there is no cowoa code there. I think that you are not uploading the files correctly. The only thing that can be done, aside from me actually installing it for you, is for you to try again. I just think, based on some of your other posts, that you aren't up to par yet on the override system.

crafzombie,
You are probably right, I don't fully understand it yet but you and steven300 have helped a lot.
I do agree in that it looks like it is not loading the correct page.That is the part I have not figured out yet. I will keep going through it piece by piece till I figure it out.
I will let you know what I find.
Thanks Again, Jim
https://ecmauto.com

ecmauto,

ftp to your site and check to see if the following file exists..

includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE\templates\tpl_login_default.php

Did you change "YOUR_TEMPLATE" to match your custom template?

Also, what Zen Cart version do you have?

Are there any issues with using Google Checkout or Paypalwpp with this mod?

Shrimp-Gumbo

Hi all, COWOA now working properly. It was the dumist thing ,
I neglected to put the (s) at the end of the "templates" dir. naming it "template" instead,so the mod could not see the files to override.
Duh !! don't you just hate it when it turns out to be the simplest thing.

Sorry if I was a pest and Thank you all for your great help.

jim
https://ecmauto.com

hi again. I managed to intall this mod. It works great.
I need to jump from Billing Information step to the final step confim order skiping payment and shipping.
Is it possible? help.....

forget the last post ...... i have a big problem i cant login : error_security_error:oops:
i have zen 1.37 ......

crinolina:

forget the last post ...... i have a big problem i cant login : error_security_error:oops:
i have zen 1.37 ......

What version of Zen Cart are you using?

I did the manual overriding for 1.3.6 and the module seem to work so far... Thanks for the help guys...

Simo

crinolina:

forget the last post ...... i have a big problem i cant login : error_security_error:oops:
i have zen 1.37 ......

There is a difference between Zen 1.3.7 and 1.3.8.... so in order for you to use COWOA, you have to use the COWOA download for 1.3.7. Since that link is now dead, you either downloaded it before it was dead.... or you are using COWOA 1.3.8, which will not work correctly with 1.3.7.

I just added COWOA to someones 1.3.7 cart for them manually. I will try to copy the files and put together a new download for those using Zen 1.3.7.

shrimp-gumbo-mmmhhh:

Are there any issues with using Google Checkout or Paypalwpp with this mod?

Shrimp-Gumbo

I honestly can't say for sure because I do not use Google Checkout. I do use regular PayPal on my site and COWOA works fine. I am thinking that COWOA should work with any payment module because COWOA really works almost like regular checkout. The only difference between COWOA and regular checkout is that the information is being entered onto an alternate page without passwords and the email address is able to be used over and over again. This shouldn't cause problems when it comes to making the payment, but as I said, I do not know for sure. If you try it and it doesn't work out, you could just remove the COWOA option from your tpl_login_default.php file and go back to the regular Zen.

I helped someone do a manual install on 1.3.7 today, so I figured I would re-create the download that apparently wasn't available anymore. To be sure everything was okay, I installed a shiny new version of Zen 1.3.7 on my test site and then installed the 1.3.7 version of this mod. I tested it to the point where I don't want to look at another Zen Cart for a few days or I'll puke. It worked beautifully with no problems and there were also no errors present in the admin. I have made the download available on the **wiki page**. As always.. back up back up back up back up your files before attempting. I had to revert back to some saved files today and thank god that person was smart enough to back up his files before he let me touch them.

i've installed the mod. the checkout without account works well... but when creating account or required to register on checkout, it's screwed. it keeps asking you to select the country and I select it and the goes right back to it.

error: "You must select a country from the Countries pull down menu."

please do help.

test site is here: http://latter.jobsground.com/index.php?main_page=create_account

adoy:

i've installed the mod. the checkout without account works well... but when creating account or required to register on checkout, it's screwed. it keeps asking you to select the country and I select it and the goes right back to it.

error: "You must select a country from the Countries pull down menu."

please do help.

test site is here: http://latter.jobsground.com/index.php?main_page=create_account

I tested the cowoa and it works fine like you said. Then I ran into the problem you are talking about when I tried to create an account. (So thats me there that you can delete!)

As far as creating an account.... no changes are made to the create account page when installing the cowoa mod. Edits are made to the login page and an alternate page entitled "no_account" is where customers enter their info. You only experienced this problem immediately after installing this mod? Do you have anything else installed that could affect the create account page? You have the validation code mod installed, but I am unfamiliar with it. I have no idea how to help you. I have never run into this problem in conjunction with cowoa and have installed this mod a ton of times. There is no reason why this mod would cause the problem you are having (at least none that I know of).

I think, way back when I first started with Zen Cart, that I had your problem once (this was before COWOA was around). I was making changes to my includes/templates/your_template/templates/tpl_modules_create_account.php file. I couldn't figure it out, so I installed a fresh copy of that file and the problem disappeared. Try making a back-up of your file and then install a fresh copy and see what happens. I can see that your create account page looks a little different than the norm. For instance, the titles to your fields are on top of the fields instead of on the left. So I know you probably do not want to lose any changes you have made to the file, but at least install a fresh copy to see whats going on. That's about all I can offer. If it doesn't work, feel free to tell me what a horrible idea it was!!!! :wink:

@ craftzombie:

thankz for the prompt reply.... i check the files of that captcha validation... i didn't realized that /includes/templates/your_template/templates/tpl_modules_create_account.php was modified by me :) .... thus, creating that error... i have replaced the file with a clean copy the the problems is solved.

thankz a lot!

I installed the COWOA for zen 1.3.8 Everything seems to work ok (crossing fingers) however, if a customer has had an account in the past and uses the same email, i get this red warning thing saying they cannot cowoa because that address is already in the system. Is there a way to bypass this? Did i miss some instruction somewhere? Any help would be appreciated.
thanks!

mooncavecrystals:

I installed the COWOA for zen 1.3.8 Everything seems to work ok (crossing fingers) however, if a customer has had an account in the past and uses the same email, i get this red warning thing saying they cannot cowoa because that address is already in the system. Is there a way to bypass this? Did i miss some instruction somewhere? Any help would be appreciated.
thanks!

That is how it works. If a customer has previously created a "real" account, they cannot use COWOA after that, with the same email address. Why would they want to if their info is already saved?

Now, if they have used COWOA and continue to use COWOA, then that is fine. They should not be getting any red warnings. They can COWOA and then also create an account later and still not get a warning. But once they create a real account, they must always sign in and cannot use COWOA.