how you found us

[jeremy]

I've not found this option in the cart yet. Nor a module that does it. How do i get a 'how did you find us' during the account creation/checkout. So like customer could choose from say, google, newspaper ad, television ad, yahoo etc. And then some way of seeing the overall totals so that we can get an idea of where people find the business so that we know what marketing is working?

[alexft]

I feel, you need to mod account creation page, add some html and php code, link to a dabatase to store results and you almost there.

[jhnstcks]

I altered the authenticate.tpl file and edited the extra comments box and changed it to "How did you find us" as a quick fix for this issue. Also added the required box *, so people think they have to fill the box in, even though they don't

Ok there is no-where to see a list of what people entered into the box, but when they put an order through it shows on the order screen.

[Hoodgrown]

mind sharing that file with us?

[jhnstcks]

I can post my authenticate.tpl file if people want it, there are other alterations though, so you might just want to alter your own file.

Edit: It wont let me upload the file to the forum so will have to do with a link the the .rar file.
http://www.purplegiraffe.co.uk/authentication.rar

[Hoodgrown]

ok.. if you post what alterations to make... i'll make them.

[jhnstcks]

Look for the code below, its at about Line 195

            

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

Change the Additional Information to whatever you want it to say, you can also do this through your translations admin section.

To add the required * just add the following code just before the end paragraph code.

            *

So that your code will look something like this:

            

{l s='How did you find us'}
               <textarea name="other" id="other" cols="26" rows="3">{if isset($smarty.post.other)}{$smarty.post.other}{/if}</textarea>
*

[Hoodgrown]

your the best.. thanx....

[littlerich]

Does the customer's selection get stored in the database? If so, which table is used?