Magento 1.7 – Customer Save Before Checkout Button Click

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Hello I want to save new customer on checkout page after filling their information but before process to checkout button clicked. Is their any possibility to save new customer using this method?

Best Answer

write an observer to get triggered on save billing or save shipping events and save the customer.

for example:

create Yournamespace_Yourmodulename.xml in app/etc/modules/

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
    <Yournamespace_Yourmodulename>
        <active>true</active>
        <codePool>local</codePool>
    </Yournamespace_Yourmodulename>
</modules>

in app/code/local/Yournamespace/Yourmodulename/etc/config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
<modules>
    <Yournamespace_Yourmodulename>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
    </Yournamespace_Yourmodulename>
</modules>
<global>
    <events>
        <controller_action_postdispatch_checkout_onepage_saveBilling>
            <observers>
                <auto_register_shipping>
                    <type>singleton</type>
                    <class>Yournamespace_Yourmodulename_Model_Observer</class>
                    <method>autoRegisterBilling</method>
                </auto_register_shipping>
            </observers>
        </controller_action_postdispatch_checkout_onepage_saveBilling>
    </events>
</global>
</config>

in app/code/local/Yournamespace/Yourmodulename/Model/Observer.php

<?php
class Yournamespace_Yourmodulename_Model_Observer {

    public function autoRegisterBilling($evt){
        if(!Mage::helper('customer')->isLoggedIn()){
            $data = $evt->getEvent()->getControllerAction()->getRequest()->getPost('billing', array());
            $customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer");
            $email = $data['email'];
            $websiteId = Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId();
            $store = Mage::app()->getStore();
            $pwd = $data['customer_password'];
            $customer->setWebsiteId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getWebsiteId())->loadByEmail($email);

            if (!$customer->getId()) {
                 //Code begins here for new customer registration
                $customer->website_id = $websiteId;
                $customer->setStore($store);
                $customer->firstname = $data['firstname'];
                $customer->lastname = $data['lastname'];
                $customer->setEmail($email);
                $customer->setPassword($pwd);
                $customer->sendNewAccountEmail('confirmed');  
                $customer->save();
                   }
           }
    }
}

note :

this will save a customer immediately after they click continue in billing information tab.
you can do this on save shipping or save payment method steps.

if you wanna automatically login that customer, add the following in Observer.php after

$customer->save();
}

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->loginById($customer->getId()); // to login that customer.

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To achieve solution for above question, You need to use event observer pattern of magento, their is event called customer_save_before, That will help you to get required answer.

Now, we have to add in our custom module. I am calling my module Customer and it is part of the Npm group. So, the file should be named app/etc/modules/Npm_Customer.xml. Add the following code into this file:

<config>
    <modules>
        <Npm_Customer>
            <active>true</active>
            <codePool>local</codePool>
        </Npm_Customer>
    </modules>
</config>

Next, we need to create the code for the module. The idea behind our code is that we are going to create an observer on the customer_save_before event. Magento has a number of events that we can observe but most are beyond the scope of this article. What is useful is that the customer_save_before event is called both when a customer is created and when a customer makes changes to their account. This means that the one observer will be able to do the work for both events.

All of the code we are writing for our module will be located inside the app/code/local/Npm/Customer/ directory. The first file is etc/config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Npm_Customer>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </Npm_Customer>
    </modules>
    <global>
        <events>
            <customer_save_before>
                <observers>
                    <npm_customer_save_observer>
                        <type>singleton</type>
                        <class>Npm_Customer_Model_Customer_Observer</class>
                        <method>customerSaveBefore</method>
                    </npm_customer_save_observer>
                </observers>
            </customer_save_before>
        </events>
    </global>
</config>

The next step is to create the class that we have just told Magento we are going to use, and should be defined in the file Model/Customer/Observer.php:

<?php
class Npm_Customer_Model_Customer_Observer extends Mage_Core_Model_Abstract
{
    /*
     * observer for the customer saved event
     */
    public function customerSaveBefore($observer)
    {
        try {
            $customer = $observer->getCustomer();
            if (null != $customer->getPermissionCode()) {
                $customer->setData('group_id', 4); // Set the new customer group
            } else {
                $customer->setData('group_id', 1); // Set to the default customer group
            }
        } catch ( Exception $e ) {
            Mage::log("customer_save_before observer failed: " . $e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Customers are now automatically assigned to your new group if they supply Permission code from the registration form.

Thanks

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