[SOLVED] Making some radio buttons checked by default in authentication page using parameters

[diana13]

I've changed the authentication page so instead of the useless Mr and Ms I've added some account types. So now I have 3 account types where users could choose what type of account they want.

Now I want to make something a little more advanced: in the page where I describe the 3 account types, I want to put the login url for everyone, so that when users choose, for example, account type 1, the corresponding radio button to be checked by default.

Something like www.mydomain.com/authentication.php?id_gender=1 (possibly be another variable, e.g. acc_type - for users not to see that I'm using something like gender in the account type - but do not have to change the name id_gender of the radiobutton).

Unfortunately, the above link doesn't work how I thought; I'm not a programmer so I don't know where I'm wrong.

Can anyone help me?

[diana13]

Nevermind, I've solved it.

[Patric]

Hi,

 

Could you please :

- change your topic's title to make it more explicit and also mark it as [solved] (see here how to do).

- explain how you did solve your problem.

Thanks a lot.

[diana13]

Hi,

 

Could you please :

- explain how you did solve your problem.

Thanks a lot.

 

Well, this is harder than the work itself )

 

I've worked with presta 1.4.4

 

First of all, I've changed the label for Mr and Ms (it can be done in admin -> tools -> translations or directly in themes/yourtheme/authentication.tpl) with something like account1 and account2

 

Now, I have a page where I explain what these accounts are, and near each of them I've put a link like:

 

www.mydomain.com/authentication?acc_type=account1

 

In themes/yourtheme/authentication.tpl I've added on line 47 I've added:

 

{$account = (Tools::getValue('acc_type'))}

 

then find

 

<input type="radio" name="id_gender" id="id_gender1" value="1" {if isset($smarty.post.id_gender) && $smarty.post.id_gender == 1}checked="checked"{/if} />

 

and replace with

 

<input type="radio" name="id_gender" id="id_gender1" value="1" {if $account == 'account1'}checked="checked"{/if} />

 

In the same way you can put some default text in the Information textarea, for example if you have for account1 two packs: pack1 and pack2:

 

Add at line 48 (after you added all the codes above)

 

{$packs = (Tools::getValue('pack'))}

 

then find

 

<textarea name="other" id="other" cols="26" rows="3">{if isset($smarty.post.other)}{$smarty.post.other}{/if}</textarea>

 

and replace with

 

<textarea name="other" id="other" cols="26" rows="3">{if isset($packs) && $packs == 'pack1'}I want to buy the first Pack (or whatever you want){/if}{if isset($packs) && $packs == 'pack2'}I want to buy the second pack{/if}{if isset($smarty.post.other)}{$smarty.post.other}{/if}</textarea>

 

This way, you will have in the Information textarea some text you want by default and the users are still able to enter their texts.

 

I wanted to make the default text not to be changed, but I didn't know how.

 

Oh, I've forgot: If you want both the radio button checked and some default text in the Information, the link you can call this is:

 

www.mydomain.com/authentication?acc_type=account1&packs=pack1

[Patric]

Thanks a lot for your feedback.