Welcome 'Guest' or 'User'?

[JRR]

How does one code the default home page message to greet the viewer either as 'Guest' or by their name? This would help folks know that they were actually logged in...

I see that this was in OSCMax 1.xx:

Help with greeting statement?

but can find no obvious reference in 2.x

Searching the Wiki for "Welcome Guest" and other attempts did not turn up an answer, nor in the docs.

Suggestions?

[pgmarshall]

This is standard functionality in osCmax ... although I suspect that it may have been commented out.

Look in catalog/<your template>/content/index_default.php for :

<?php //php echo tep_customer_greeting(); ?>

and change it to:

<?php echo tep_customer_greeting(); ?>

Regards,

[JRR]

Ah, thanks - that now works.

For folks information this file is now named index_default.tpl.php and it is located in catalog/templates/fallback/content/

[AVSol]

OK, but where/how do you format the greeting text (font, color, size)??? There is a format value in the stylsheet.css for the variable info (registered customer name) but not the static greeting text. Yes, languages/english.php contains the actual text verbage, but not the formatting of the text. Is this text a default format in lieu of a stylesheet.css entry? If so, how would I assign a format for this text in the stylesheet.css (or elsewhere)?

[ridexbuilder]

Off-cuff, so to speak

<span class="greeting"><?php echo tep_customer_greeting(); ?></span>

Then add the greeting class to stylesheet.css

[met00]

Maybe it's time to add a "basics" section to the wiki with links to tutorials on CSS, PHP, mySQL and jquery.

[stutzy]

How do i display the users name in the breadcrumb when they are logged on, i can get customers id but not the name that goes with the id

<td class="breadcrumb" align="right">&nbsp;<?php echo $customer_id; ?></td>

any ideas????

[pgmarshall]

Depends on which page you want to add this from. Their account page? What is the purpose of the breadcrumb link? ie. if they click on their customer_id what page would you take them to.

Perhaps it might be better to simply put a Welcome back xyz somewhere outside the breadcrumb path? Perhaps, in the same bar but aligned right underneath the tabs?

Regards.

[stutzy]

hi and thanks pgmarshall for your help, i just wanted to greet the logged on user in a nice space and the breadcrumb looks like the place to put that so anyway after alot of fluffing around i got this to work:

<td class="breadcrumb" style="font-weight : bold" align="right">&nbsp;<?php echo $customer_first_name; ?></td>

simple really once you know how.