[osCmax V2.0.25] Hack: Email Confirmation

[ridexbuilder]

As standard, a customer can enter their email address incorrectly (speeling mistoke) during the 'create account' process. This way they don't receive a welcome email and may cause further issues, if not spotted by an administrator/shop owner.

The code snippets here are shown for 2.0.25 but could be easily adapted for other releases. Also, the $HTTP_POST_VARS should really be replaced with $_POST (and may well be in your version of the files).

4 Steps

1. catalog/includes/languages/english.php (and any other languages in use). Add underneath existing email entries, or just before the last ?>

define('ENTRY_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION', 'E-Mail Confirmation:');
define('ENTRY_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_TEXT', '*');
define('ENTRY_EMAIL_ERROR_NOT_MATCHING', 'The E-mail Confirmation must match your E-mail Address.');

2. catalog/create_account.php
Look for

     $email_address = tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['email_address']); 
  

Replace with/add

     $email_address = tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['email_address']);
    $email_confirmation = tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['email_confirmation']); 
  

3. Also, in catalog/create_account.php
Look for

       $messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_CHECK_ERROR);
    } else {
      // PWA BOF 2b
      $check_email_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as total from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_email_address = '" . tep_db_input($email_address) . "' and guest_account != '1'");
      // PWA EOF 2b
      $check_email = tep_db_fetch_array($check_email_query);
      if ($check_email['total'] > 0) {
           $error = true; 
  

Modify it so it looks like this:

       $messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_CHECK_ERROR);
    } else {
      // PWA BOF 2b
      $check_email_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as total from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_email_address = '" . tep_db_input($email_address) . "' and guest_account != '1'");
      // PWA EOF 2b
      $check_email = tep_db_fetch_array($check_email_query);
      if ($check_email['total'] > 0) {
           $error = true;

           $messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_ERROR_EXISTS);
    } elseif ($email_address != $email_confirmation) {
      $error = true;

      $messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ERROR_NOT_MATCHING);
    }
    } 
  

(Note that last } will already exist.)

4. catalog/templates/your-template/content/create_account.tpl.php (copy with one from fallback, if needs be.)
Look for:

              <tr>
                <td class="main" width="150"><?php echo ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS; ?></td>
                <td class="main"><?php echo tep_draw_input_field('email_address') . '&nbsp;' . (tep_not_null(ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_TEXT) ? '<span class="inputRequirement">' . ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?></td>
              </tr> 

Directly below it add:

              <tr>
                <td class="main" width="150"><?php echo ENTRY_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION; ?></td>
                <td class="main"><?php echo tep_draw_input_field('email_confirmation') . '&nbsp;' . (tep_not_null(ENTRY_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_TEXT) ? '<span class="inputRequirement">' . ENTRY_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?></td>
              </tr> 

Please indicate the usefulness of this and/or if using it by adding your "thumbs up".

EJ