[HOW TO] - Welcome Message / Customer Name in Header

[jmrchaves]

Hey great add-on Fido-x

Let me ask you is it possible to add to this a not you? button?

Example

Welcome, customer Not you?(->this would go to login page)

Thanks, great contrib

[Yakiv]

Hey great add-on Fido-x

Let me ask you is it possible to add to this a not you? button?

Example

Welcome, customer Not you?(->this would go to login page)

Thanks, great contrib

This is a good suggestion, but shouldn't it log them out, if they click on "Not you?"?

[viniciusdepaula]

Great job!!!

Tks

[nocko]

Beautiful! Thanks!

[Cristina]

GREAT JOB!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[The Alchemist]

nice mod

[melbagnato]

In my real-world job, I do a lot of consulting to large companies, and their marketing principles seem to revolve around the following concepts:
(1) gather as much useful information about the customer as possible
(2) have logical use for that information in your product selection & promotions

Whilst having the ability to greet someone correctly is great (infact in Germany it can be insulting not to use someone's title as it's a a sign of respect for their qualifications etc.), I feel that having the ability to know that a product is better suited to a woman rather than a man is great for promotional purposes.

That said, it means that you need to extend your product metadata to include these new fields too (in order to make use of this new real-time sales smarts), and possibly change way too many php files to be able to upgrade or take advantage of other people's mods.

IMHO, if you just want salutation, then I agree the effort isn't worth the risk of a mistake happening (even if it's caused by the customer), plus not everyone wants to divulge their sex as part of registration.

But, if you're thinking of collecting it as part of additional marketing fields to be used for analytics and sales promotions, then you've got a pretty difficult journey of mods ahead of you. My thoughts are with you.

- [MB]

[The Alchemist]

Will this work in 1.4.0?

[luiseduardo]

Will this work in 1.4.0?

Good question... this is full of useless contributions since version is getting changed every week.

[The Alchemist]

Plus 1 they should have a contribs section with sub sections for versions.

[Vivian]

Hi fido-x,

Can it be used on 1.4.7?

Vivian

[Vivian]

Hi,

I am running 1.4.7 and it gives me the following error when I try to run.

Fatal error: Call to a member function https() on a non-object in /content/HostingPlus/v/m/vmaxx.ie/web/catalog/controller/common/header.php on line 60

Can anyone explain what's wrong?

Vivian

[fido-x]

Hi,

I am running 1.4.7 and it gives me the following error when I try to run.

Fatal error: Call to a member function https() on a non-object in /content/HostingPlus/v/m/vmaxx.ie/web/catalog/controller/common/header.php on line 60

Can anyone explain what's wrong?

Vivian

To make this compatible with 1.4.7, in "catalog/controller/common/header.php" change the following 2 lines:-

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$this->data['create'] = $this->url->https('account/create');
$this->data['account'] = $this->url->https('account/account'); 

To:

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$this->data['create'] = HTTPS_SERVER . 'index.php?route=account/create';
$this->data['account'] = HTTPS_SERVER . 'index.php?route=account/account';  

In your case, this will be lines 60 and 61.

[Vivian]

Hi fido-x,

I have made the changes as you said but it is displaying - text_greeting [lig in] [account]

No name appearing only string name even after I log in.

After log in it displays the string name - text_logged

Vivian

[fido-x]

Looks like you missed a step with the language file. Put the following in "catalog/language/english/common/header.php":-

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$_['text_greeting'] = 'Welcome, <strong>Guest</strong>';
$_['text_logged']   = 'Welcome back, <strong>%s</strong>';
$_['text_create']   = 'Register';
$_['text_account']  = 'Account'; 

[Vivian]

Hi fido-x,

Did that but this is all that appears when page is loaded - text_greeting [ Log In ] [ text_create ]

Thanks

Vivian

[fido-x]

OK. Here's some updated instructions for OpenCart 1.4.7.

catalog/controller/common/header.php
Insert the following (around line 104):

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// Greeting in header
if (!$this->customer->isLogged()) {
    $this->data['text_greeting'] = $this->language->get('text_greeting');
} else {
    $this->data['text_greeting'] = sprintf($this->language->get('text_logged'), $this->customer->getFirstName());
}
$this->data['text_create'] = $this->language->get('text_create');
$this->data['create'] = HTTPS_SERVER . 'index.php?route=account/create';
// End Greeting in header     

catalog/language/english/common/header.php
Insert the following:

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// Greeting Text
$_['text_greeting'] = 'Welcome, <strong>Guest</strong>';
$_['text_logged']   = 'Welcome back, <strong>%s</strong>';
$_['text_create']   = 'Register';
// End Greeting Text    

catalog/view/theme/default/template/common/header.tpl
Insert the following where you want the welcome message to appear:

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<div class="welcome">
  <?php echo $text_greeting; ?>
  <?php if (!$logged) { ?>
  [ <a href="<?php echo $login; ?>"><?php echo $text_login; ?></a> ] [ <a href="<?php echo $create; ?>"><?php echo $text_create; ?></a> ]
  <?php } else { ?>
  [ <a href="<?php echo $logout; ?>"><?php echo $text_logout; ?></a> ] [ <a href="<?php echo $account; ?>"><?php echo $text_account; ?></a> ]
  <?php } ?>
</div>

catalog/view/theme/default/stylesheet/stylesheet.css
Give it some style (eg. margins, padding, etc.):

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#header .welcome {
    float: left;
    display: block;
    margin-top: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    padding-left: 0px;
}
#header .welcome a {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    background: none;
}
 

[silanli_53]

How can we show the surname.?

welcome; name lastname



Thanks

[fido-x]

How can we show the surname.?

welcome; name lastname

Use this in the header controller (catalog/controller/common/header.php):

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// Greeting in header
if (!$this->customer->isLogged()) {
    $this->data['text_greeting'] = $this->language->get('text_greeting');
} else {
    $this->data['text_greeting'] = sprintf($this->language->get('text_logged'), $this->customer->getFirstName() . ' ' . $this->customer->getLastName());
}
$this->data['text_create'] = $this->language->get('text_create');
$this->data['create'] = HTTPS_SERVER . 'index.php?route=account/create';
// End Greeting in header   

[Maansy]

thank you
but why there is big space?
Welcome, Guest [........ Log In ] [........Register ]
see it live

also can you provide how to add total cart items and total cart amount? plz answer here. i dont want to H/J this post
thanks