My Checkout Without Account Mod

I don't, Steven, and you remind me that I probably should! Let me go check that.

And that did it! Thank you, I was getting really concerned! (That brings me down to only 2 or 3 show-stoppers instead of 4...)

Thank you, thank you, and I'll document that!

I have tried installing this twice and am not having any luck getting it to work. I think the 1.3.1.8 download is missing files. I cannot find all of the files listed in the instructions.

Am I supposed to download 1.3.1.7 first and then overwrite those files with 1.3.1.8?

I did it straight from the 1.3.8 download. I couldn't get it to work either until stephen300 reminded me that the 1.3.8 version has to have split-login turned on... I would at least check that. Once I configured that, COWOA came right up.''

If you already did that and it still doesn't work, I haven't a clue. But I didn't need any extra files.

HTMLGoddess:

I have tried installing this twice and am not having any luck getting it to work. I think the 1.3.1.8 download is missing files. I cannot find all of the files listed in the instructions.

Am I supposed to download 1.3.1.7 first and then overwrite those files with 1.3.1.8?

There are no files missing from any of the downloads. There's really not any major differences between the 1.3.7 and 1.3.8 downloads. Its just a few files that had to be tweaked a little in order for them to work with 1.3.8. The 1.3.8 download is complete with all of the files needed to make the mod work. I have installed both versions on many sites with no problems. The one and only time I have run into a problem with it was because the person had other mods installed that were conflicting with COWOA. Anyone else that had problems ended up figuring out that they were not uploading into the correct folders or their FTP program was not transferring files properly.

I noticed something in final testing that I'm mildly concerned about. I don't think it's really a show-stopper, but our customer base is unusual, and it may become an issue:

When you enter the billing information and click "enter", after choosing checkout without account, in the header the status changes from "Log In" to "Log Out." At this point you shouldn't be aware that you have logged in. I'm afraid it will scare some of our customers away. Is there some way to make that whole Login status display go away?? I've looked through the admin menus and it doesn't seem to be anything I can turn off from there.

hedera:

I noticed something in final testing that I'm mildly concerned about. I don't think it's really a show-stopper, but our customer base is unusual, and it may become an issue:

When you enter the billing information and click "enter", after choosing checkout without account, in the header the status changes from "Log In" to "Log Out." At this point you shouldn't be aware that you have logged in. I'm afraid it will scare some of our customers away. Is there some way to make that whole Login status display go away?? I've looked through the admin menus and it doesn't seem to be anything I can turn off from there.

There is a way to make certain links disappear when a customer is COWOA. I've always wanted to add these into the mod, but I have so much going on right now and never could get to it.

On my site, when a customer is COWOA, the "My Account" and "Log Out" links disappear. This is done by adding
<?php if (!($_SESSION['COWOA'])) { ?> before the link and <?php } ?> after.

So take a look at a section of my tpl_header.php file:

<?php if (!($_SESSION['COWOA'])) { ?><?php if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) { ?><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>">My Account</a> | <?php } ?><?php } ?>
**

I'm sure you can add the same thing to the Login link. I never added it because I felt like the customer would assume that, even though they didn't really create an account (as far as they knew), they were still involved in some kind of "session" with the site. My confirmation page, for example, does not ask them to "Log Out", whether they are signed up or not, it asks them to "End Their Session".

Beautiful, craftzombie, I'll get right on it! Thanks so much!

Um, er. I put in what I thought was the correct mod and my entire site has gone blank. Here's the modified statement (formatted for easier read):

<?php if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) { ?>
	<li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL'); ?>">
	<?php echo HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF; ?></a>
<?php } ?>
	<?php } ?>

I wish the stupid scroll tags worked. In my HTML editor it looked like everything was closed properly. Suggestions??

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/tobabyvo/public_html/includes/languages/english/checkout_shipping.php:84) in /home/tobabyvo/public_html/includes/functions/functions_general.php on line 44

what's the problem?

I restored the old checkout_shipping.php and everything is ok now. but why?

xiongzhi555:

I restored the old checkout_shipping.php and everything is ok now. but why?

it could be a number of things. maybe the file didn't transfer properly. maybe you have other mods that are conflicting.

hedera:

Um, er. I put in what I thought was the correct mod and my entire site has gone blank. Here's the modified statement (formatted for easier read):

<?php if (!($_SESSION['COWOA'])) { ?> <?php if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) { ?>

	<li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL'); ?>">
  <?php echo HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF; ?></a>

<?php } ?>

  <?php } ?>

I wish the stupid scroll tags worked. In my HTML editor it looked like everything was closed properly. Suggestions??

I'm not sure. I never tried it with the Logoff link. I don't think it would make your page go blank. The only time that happens to me is when its something dumb like too many spaces or an extra closing tag, etc. Remove it from the logoff link and try it on the My Account link just to see what happens. I am no php expert, so please forgive me. Much of this was learned when I was playing.

Hmm. Too many spaces?? I didn't think spaces mattered but you learn something every day. I'll play with it and see. But one thing: it didn't just make the page go blank. It made THE ENTIRE SITE go blank; so it was something it really didn't like...

Hi there

Just a quick note that ZenMagick does also support checkout without registering.

Since it is a replacement for zen-cart's storefront templating system it's not compatible with zen-cart templates, though.

Cheers, mano

Hello there, i'm totally noob

Wiki says

"When a visitor adds something to their cart and proceeds to checkout, they are greeted with three options. They can sign in to their existing account, they can create a new account, or they can proceed through checkout without an account."

Its possible to skip this screen an go directly to checkout without an account? I dont want to use the account system for now...

Hi. Check posts 541 and 542.

Hello Steven, thanks for the reply. I think is working. Now I just have to remove the links for register, login etc.

My attempts to remove the "Log In" header display for sessions using COWOA have so far failed. I can't get ANYTHING with that NOT statement in it to work, and the result is always that the entire site comes up blank, including the home page. I originally tried to apply craftzombie's putting the entire IF statement (as she did for "My Account") in a larger "IF NOT COWOA" statement. I then tried making adding an AND NOT to the IF statement:

Didn't work. Then I tried with the NOT COWOA statement leading the AND, also a failure. Does anyone have any brilliant ideas? I'll keep trying, but so far I'm rolling snake eyes.

You were right, craftzombie - it was extra spaces that were killing me. I bow to the master! I've made "Log Off" go away, now I'll get rid of "My Account."

I did some additional testing today on https://www.liferingtest.com and noticed that the Log In link is now gone from the Home page. I would have expected that the IF statement I put in would only turn it off after someone had chosen to Checkout Without Account. Am I missing something here? This is the statement I put into

/includes/templates/LifeRing/common/tpl_header.php

<li><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF; ?></a></li><?php } ?>

Should the final <?php } ?> be inside or outside the </li> tag?? It seems to work both ways. Also, shouldn't there be TWO <?php } ?> statements, one for "if COWOA" and one for "if customer_id"?? But when I put up 2 closing brace statements, my site goes blank again.

You can get to the login page by clicking on My Account but that isn't very intuitive.