Gift Message Option x 2 in Magento – How to Fix

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I'm working on a magento store which, in the checkout, allows customers to provide a gift message for the end consumer. I need to implement this exact functionality again in the same website. So where it once gave an option to give a 'gift message' it will also allow users the option of submitting a 'christmas gift message'.

Once the checkout process is over the customer receives an email with all details including the gift message and an order is created in the backend containing details of the message.

I need to implement the christmas gift message in such a way that it works exactly like the normal gift message but is somehow distinguishable as being specifically a christmas message.

I am unsure about what is the best way to do this. If anyone has done it before it would be a great help to know how you did it or if anyone simply knows of a good way to do this please say.

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In case anyone is interested in this I am sharing how I did this. Feel free to ask any further questions if any aspect of it is not clear.

In the backend where you activate gift messages you have the option to display two types of gift message. One is the normal gift message and the other is an individual product gift message.

I enabled the individual gift message and inside giftmessage/inline.phtml I had to make a few changes. The out of the box solution for individual gift messages displays a form for each product in the checkout as the name would suggest. I basically put a break in the loop after the first form for the first product is displayed. I also made a few edits to the html but after this it was pretty much done.

The Christmas message then shows up on the order sheet in the back end as being related to an individual product but for the store manager this is enough to identify that it is not a normal gift message.

I'm aware this is a bit of a hack but Christmas is not an ongoing event so spending too much time perfecting this seemed unnecessary.

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Magento – Offering a free gift with purchase of a particular product type

As you've mentioned there are 10+ extensions that do this. No extension is going to fulfill your every business rule out of the box - make it yourself!

Create one 'free' product
Set their visibility to be 'Not Visibile Individually'
Set the 100+ custom options on the product
Create a System > Configuration input field and tab set to manage the ID of the free product (alternatively create a product attribute or attribute set that identifies the product as a free product type). I will use the former as a suggested approach.

Then, create a new block and template to display the custom options from this product:

<?php

class YourCompany_YourModule_Block_Freeproduct extends Mage_Core_Block_Abstract
{

    protected $_freeProduct;

    public function getFreeProduct()
    {
        if(!isset($this->_freeProduct)){
            $id = Mage::getStoreConfig('system/freeproduct/free_product_id');
            $this->_freeProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($id);
        }

        return $this->_freeProduct;
    }

    public function getFreeProductOptions()
    {
        if($product = $this->getFreeProduct()){
            if(!$product->hasOptions()){
                return;
            }

            return $product->getOptions();
        }
    }

}

And make use of getFreeProductOptions in your template/phtml file:

<?php if($options = $this->getFreeProductOptions()): ?>

    <select name="free_product">
        <?php foreach($options as $option): ?>
            <option value="<?php echo $option->getId();?>"><?php echo $option->getTitle(); ?></option>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
    </select>

<?php endif; ?>

You will want to call this block that renders the template from inside a getChildHtml and locate that inside of the <form> element on your theme's catalog/product/view.phtml file. This way, the free_product value comes along for the ride with an add to cart button click.

All you have to do then is create an observer of the cart add postdispatch event and examine the request object. From there you'll have the chosen option id to add to the cart. Voila!

Best of luck!

Magento Gift Card Extension – Free Gift for Magento 1.8

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=magento+gift+card+extension+free
And here is one I found on a simple search. I haven't used it, but, like you asked, it is free.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/devsters-gift-cards.html

I know you may not want to use a paid extension but I can recommend you this one http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/unirgy-giftcert.html. I've used it in the past and it's worth the money.
I'm in no way associated with the extension provider. I just used it and liked it.

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