Magento – Trigger New Customer Registration Event on Onepage Checkout

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When an unregistered customer goes to the checkout page and registers for an account there, on the final stage when the customer presses "Place order" Magento adds the new customer to the database.

I want to catch that event and get the new customer's details.

Problems

The event customer_register_success doesn't work on the onepage checkout page
The event checkout_type_onepage_save_order_after works every time a customer presses "Place order", and I want to catch only the first time

I want to catch the exact event that adds the new customer after they've registered in the onepage checkout page, and get the details of that new customer (after the event).

Best Answer

I've only had a quick look through the Onepage model but it looks like you should be able to use the checkout_type_onepage_save_order_after event, just apply some extra conditions.

As you can see here the core model uses the checkout method to find out what "type" of checkout process it should be.

Knowing what is in the event, you can apply the same logic using that event, i.e.:

/**
 * Event: checkout_type_onepage_save_order_after
 */
public function getNewCustomer(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
{
    /** @var Mage_Sales_Model_Quote $quote */
    $quote = $observer->getEvent()->getQuote();

    // Don't continue unless it's a new customer registration
    if ($quote->getCheckoutMethod !== Mage_Checkout_Model_Type_Onepage::METHOD_REGISTER) {
        return $this;
    }

    // You know it's a NEW customer now...

    /** @var Mage_Customer_Model_Customer $customer */
    $customer = $quote->getCustomer();
}

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Magento Onepage Checkout – Fix Redirect Issue for Registered Customer Login

I had the exact same problem. I bought a template for 1.7.2, not knowing I just installed version 1.8.1.

One of the things I had trouble with was this situation. The fix is not that hard.

In the app/design/frontend/default/[themename]/template/persistent/checkout/onepage/login.phtml you will have to add a signle line.

Find <ul class="form-list"> and add:

<input type="hidden" name="form_key" value="<? echo Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getFormKey(); ?>" />

I also had to do the same in app/design/frontend/default/[themename]/template/persistent/customer/form/login.phtml .

Magento – Determine if Customer is New in customer_save_after Event

First of all you can define your observer as singleton for both events

<global>
    <events>
        <customer_save_after>
            <observers>
                <namespace_module>
                    <type>singleton</type>
                    <class>namespace_module/observer</class>
                    <method>doSomething</method>
                </namespace_module>
            </observers>
        </customer_save_after>
        <customer_register_success>
            <observers>
                <namespace_module>
                    <type>singleton</type>
                    <class>namespace_module/observer</class>
                    <method>doSomething</method>
                </namespace_module>
            </observers>
        </customer_register_success>
    </events>
</global>

In this case the same observer object will be used for both events. So you can create flag in your observer and before doing some actions check it.

class [Namespace]_[Module]_Model_Observer
{
    protected $canDoSomething = false;

    public function doSomething($observer)
    {
        if (!$this->canDoSomething) {

            //here your code

            //now set flag to true to prevent executing your code twice 
            $this->canDoSomething = true;
        }
    }
}

Now your code will be executed only once.

Problems

Best Answer

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