Magento – How to display customer attribute on frontend in magento

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I have created module using http://silksoftware.com/magento-module-creator, in my module i have created three customer attributes to be displayed in admin and in frontend registration.

The fields get displayed in admin area, but it is not getting displayed in frontend registration form. When I click on Continue button in registration form it is giving me alert to enter those fields (fields created using module) but those are not displayed.

Can anyone have any idea about this??

Best Answer

The validation is added via the customer_form_attribute but it appears you already have that sorted :)

From the display side the option I prefer is to update the registration template via xml and then add these fields into the new template.

For example you could update the customer creation form using the layout handle customer_account_create

<customer_account_create>
    <reference name="customer_form_register">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>your/customer/form/register.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>
</customer_account_create>

Note that this will only change the account create and you should also think about using the handles checkout_onepage_index and customer_account_edit

Add the attribute to the form-filter

To save new attributes in an EAV table through a form, you need to set the used_on_forms setting, like this in a setup file

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

There are a lot more forms, like customer_account_edit.

Be careful, this example is from a customer attribute, not customer address!

A few form codes:

SELECT DISTINCT form_code FROM `customer_form_attribute` WHERE 1

adminhtml_checkout
adminhtml_customer
adminhtml_customer_address
checkout_register
customer_account_create
customer_account_edit
customer_address_edit
customer_register_address

I'm not sure whether I got all, maybe there are some, which are not used but mentioned in the code.

Magento – Add Custom Attribute to Customer Registration Form

To allow to publish an attribute in the register form and some others form page, you have to set that the attribute(s) is/are available to those forms.

To do that here is a sample code to put in your sql setup below. You can find the rest of the code I used for my Magento Username module on my github account.

/* @var $installer Diglin_Username_Model_Entity_Setup */
$installer = $this;

/* @var $eavConfig Mage_Eav_Model_Config */
$eavConfig = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config');

$store = Mage::app()->getStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

$attributes = $installer->getAdditionalAttributes();

foreach ($attributes as $attributeCode => $data) {
    $installer->addAttribute('customer', $attributeCode, $data);

    $attribute = $eavConfig->getAttribute('customer', $attributeCode);
    $attribute->setWebsite( (($store->getWebsite()) ? $store->getWebsite() : 0));

    if (false === ($attribute->getIsSystem() == 1 && $attribute->getIsVisible() == 0)) {
        $usedInForms = array(
            'customer_account_create',
            'customer_account_edit',
            'checkout_register',
        );
        if (!empty($data['adminhtml_only'])) {
            $usedInForms = array('adminhtml_customer');
        } else {
            $usedInForms[] = 'adminhtml_customer';
        }
        if (!empty($data['adminhtml_checkout'])) {
            $usedInForms[] = 'adminhtml_checkout';
        }

        $attribute->setData('used_in_forms', $usedInForms);
    }
    $attribute->save();
}

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