Magento 1.9 – Create Custom Dropdown Attribute for Customer

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I want to create a custom dropdown attribute for magento customer account.

For this I have used $installer script but it is not working for me. My script as below :

<?php
$installer = $this;
$installer->startSetup();

$installer->addAttribute("customer", "track_device",  array(
    "label"    => "Customer Device",
    'input' => 'select',
    'type'  => 'int',
    'required' => 0,
    'user_defined' => 0,
    'source' => 'eav/entity_attribute_source_table',
    'option' => array('values' => array('Web', 'App')) 

));

$attribute   = Mage::getSingleton("eav/config")->getAttribute("customer", "track_device");

$used_in_forms=array();

$used_in_forms[]="adminhtml_customer";
$used_in_forms[]="checkout_register";
$used_in_forms[]="customer_account_create";
$used_in_forms[]="customer_account_edit";
$used_in_forms[]="adminhtml_checkout";
$attribute->setData("used_in_forms", $used_in_forms)
        ->setData("is_used_for_customer_segment", true)
        ->setData("is_system", 0)
        ->setData("is_user_defined", 1)
        ->setData("is_visible", 1)
        ->setData("sort_order", 100)
        ;
$attribute->save();

$installer->endSetup();
?>

Is anything missing or wrong in this script?

Is any another method to create custom dropdown attribute in customer account in magento?

Best Answer

Try this:

<?php
require_once('app/Mage.php');
Mage::app('default');

$installer = new Mage_Customer_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup');
$installer->startSetup();
$entityTypeId     = (int)$installer->getEntityTypeId('customer');
$attributeSetId   = (int)$installer->getDefaultAttributeSetId($entityTypeId);
$attributeGroupId = (int)$installer->getDefaultAttributeGroupId($entityTypeId, $attributeSetId);

$installer->addAttribute('customer', 'track_device', array(
    'type'               => 'int',
    'label'              => 'Customer Device',
    'input'              => 'select',
    'forms'              => array('customer_account_edit','customer_account_create','adminhtml_customer','checkout_register'),
    'source'             => 'eav/entity_attribute_source_table',
    'required'           => false,
    'visible'            => 1,
    'user_defined'       => true, /* To display in frontend */
    'position'           => 110,
    'option'             => array('values' => array('Web', 'App'))
));

$installer->addAttributeToGroup($entityTypeId, $attributeSetId, $attributeGroupId, 'track_device', 100);

$oAttribute = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')->getAttribute('customer', 'track_device');
$oAttribute->setData('used_in_forms', array('customer_account_edit','customer_account_create','adminhtml_customer','checkout_register'));
$oAttribute->save();

$installer->endSetup();


?>

Related Solutions

Magento – Creating a Customer Attribute set by Dropdown Populated from a table

You just need an attribute with a custom source model.
Here is an example on how to create an attribute with custom options. It's for products but the idea is similar. You said you know how to create attributes. Well...do your magic and just fill in the source setting of the attribute with your model alias.
The model that you use as source must contain a method getAllOptions that should return an array like this:

array(
    array('label' => 'Label 1', 'value' => 'value 1'),
    array('label' => 'Label 2', 'value' => 'value 2'),
    array('label' => 'Label 3', 'value' => 'value 3'),
    ....
)

The label will be show in the dropdown and the value will be saved in the db.

In the example I linked there are 2 method in the source model that you can skip. They are needed only for products and categories. getFlatColums and getFlatUpdateSelect.

Magento 1.9 – Set Custom Dropdown Attribute for Customer

You did not create Customer attribute properly.

As you have create a dropdown Customer attribute so you need to define source model for this attribute.

 "source"   => "[module_Model_Prefix]/source_option",

basically at this source class you have define option for that attribute

Also need to remove 'option' => array('values' => array('Inactive', 'Candidate', 'Certified')),

Source class

<?php
class [ModuleNameSpace]_[ModuleName]_Model_Source_Option extends Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Attribute_Source_Abstract
{
    /**
     * Retrieve all options array
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getAllOptions()
    {
        if (is_null($this->_options)) {
            $this->_options = array(

                array(
                    "label" => Mage::helper("eav")->__("Inactive"),
                    "value" =>  1
                ),

                array(
                    "label" => Mage::helper("eav")->__("Candidate"),
                    "value" =>  2
                ),

            );
        }
        return $this->_options;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve option array
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getOptionArray()
    {
        $_options = array();
        foreach ($this->getAllOptions() as $option) {
            $_options[$option["value"]] = $option["label"];
        }
        return $_options;
    }

    /**
     * Get a text for option value
     *
     * @param string|integer $value
     * @return string
     */
    public function getOptionText($value)
    {
        $options = $this->getAllOptions();
        foreach ($options as $option) {
            if ($option["value"] == $value) {
                return $option["label"];
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

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Related Solutions

Magento – Creating a Customer Attribute set by Dropdown Populated from a table

Magento 1.9 – Set Custom Dropdown Attribute for Customer

Source class

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