V4.1.x Changing Billing Address checkbox default to Unchecked?

[Offshoreboat +]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks in advance for any help.

At registration I only require Name & Email address as I want as many people as possible to register but at checkout on step6.tpl I want to make the billing address "Unchecked" by default so that all of the fields show at that moment vs. current setting of checked.

I know it's in template: step6.tpl and believe the change is here:

<input type="checkbox" name="b_same" value="Y" onclick="javascript: displayID('billing',this.unchecked);"{if $b_same=="Y"} checked{/if} />{$smarty.const.LANG_BILLING_SAME}</label>
</div>
<div id="billing"{if $b_same=="Y"}style="display:none;"{/if}>

I've tried changing value=Y to value=N and also changed "this.checked" to "this.unchecked" with no success.

Thanks in advance for helping!
Jessie

v4.1 developer, seo mod

[Offshoreboat +]

Never mind.... after more digging figured it out... in case anyone doing the same:

Changed:

<div id="billing"{if $b_same=="Y"}style="display:none;"{/if}>

To:

<div id="billing"{if $b_same=="Y"}style="display:block;"{/if}>

Thanks
Jessie

[Offshoreboat +]

Actually... scratch previous reply... that displayed box by default but did not uncheck the checkbox... still stuck...

Maybe different logic... a test to see if all fields are complete, leave checked if complete, if blank then display block?

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by Offshoreboat

Actually... scratch previous reply... that displayed box by default but did not uncheck the checkbox... still stuck...

Maybe different logic... a test to see if all fields are complete, leave checked if complete, if blank then display block?

I think you are totally misinterpreting the smarty logic you quoted above.

For starters, the following smarty logic....

<div id="billing"{if $b_same=="Y"}style="display:none;"{/if}>

simply states if the value of the smarty variable $b_same is Y then set a style. You can change the Y to an N and it may change the outcome of the evaluation but it DOES NOT change the value of the variable $b_same.

The contents, or value of, $b_same is stored in the database so even if you present the user the form to fill out, if the value of $b_same is Y in the database I am not sure the values in the form would be used anyway.

[Offshoreboat +]

Hello Larry,

Thanks for the feedback on this. I studied it some more and getting closer to the desired solution. Once I get it, will post code here.

Thanks
Jessie

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

I think you need to step back a little further...

If you are only requiring the few fields that you are in registration, then regardless of whether the $b_same variable is Y or N in the checkout template file, the address fields are going to be blank. However when you look at the initial set up of the database and the users table in the database you will see that b_same field is set to "Y" by default. As far as I can tell, there is nowhere other than the checkout step or in modifying the user in admin that this field will ever change.

When in the checkout step, the field only gets changed when the user actually clicks the checkbox for business address the same and then it is the javascript that actually then makes the change in the database. Otherwise, the only other place this field can be changed is in the usermodify in administration.

Given the above information, in your particular case I think the key first lies in changing the actual default within the database field itself. You need to change the default from "Y" to "N". Then in addition, make the change that you are talking about in the checkout step. Since all of your users already have the b_same filled in the database set to "Y" by default, nothing will change regardless of what you do in the template or the php file.