I am totally new to Magento. Still learning, so I am confused about where to start off when I have to do something new.
I have to add just another input field in the checkout that gets saved in the order and displayed in the back-end.
So can someone give me directions? It can probably be implemented in an existing extension, but I don’t really have a clue. Any help and explanation will be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE:
For example, I need to take the number of the customer (when he places and order/checks out), save this number and display it in the Order view in the back-end.
What I suppose needs to be done is that I have to fetch this number from the front-end, fire an event which will call a function (from the Observer class) that will set the value of this fetched number into the field in the back-end. But before all that I guess I have to install a script to add this "Customer Number" field in the Order view in the back-end.
Best Answer
follow this tutorial it may help you
http://www.excellencemagentoblog.com/magento-add-custom-fields-checkout-page
or
http://indiestechtips.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/how-to-add-custom-field-in-the-billing-and-shipping-address-of-onepage-checkout-in-magento/