Magento 1 – Adding a Step to the One Page Checkout

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Are there any extensions, open-source Magento modules, or tutorials that make adding a step to the one page checkout any easier? I've poked at the core code for this a few times and it seems like there's a lot of hard coded step information.

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The short answer to this question ended up being "No". From a high level, adding a new checkout step meant

Adding a new Block to the one step checkout page
Having that block register itself as a step
Connect that block with a prototype object that handled all interactions
Rewriting several core Magento methods to insert the block as a step
Some ajax trickery to get the progress stuff working.

Covering this in total is beyond the scope of a single Stack Overflow question. The tutorial linked in another question has a lot of what you'll need, and I also created a new commercial extension to make all this easier.

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Magento 1.8.1 – Fix One Page Checkout Login Fails

Solution found!

If you have a module that does anything regarding the quote and addressing running on a observer you need to add additional code to check if login, is occurring at that step.

As found via: http://www.rapidcommerce.eu/blog/2012/04/allways-show-shipping-costs-in-magento/ from Thomas on December 4, 2013.

Thanks to Pieter, who dropped a email to me about this Mageoverflow and found the above.

Essentially add:

    $pageIdentifier = Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getAction()->getFullActionName();
    if ($pageIdentifier == 'customer_account_loginPost') {
        return $observer;
    }

to your observer.

The observer in fault for me was running on the event "sales_quote_address_collect_totals_before" for anyone else, it could be any event related to quotes, their addresses and total collection

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