[TYPO3-commerce] additional address form fields

[Ingo Schmitt]

Hi Heiko,

could you add this to the wiki?

ingo
> Hello,
> 
> I just wandet to share how to manage additional address form fields if 
> they are needed.
> In our case we also need the fields 'telephone', 'fax', 'customer 
> number' and 'gender'.
> 
> The TS setup has to get extended by those fields to produce the form 
> fields:
> 
> plugin.tx_commerce_pi3 {
>    billing.sourceFields {
>       phone.mandatory = 0
>       fax.mandatory = 0
>       custnumber.mandatory = 0
>       gender.mandatory = 1
>     }
> }
> 
> If possible we use the field names according to already existing DB 
> fields in tt_address table.
> If we need fields not yet existing in the tt_address table we have to 
> add them to the table, for example with the kickstarter.
> 
> All additional fields are now put at the end of the form which is not 
> nice for the 'gender' field since we would expect it to stick in front 
> of the name field. Unfortunately I couldn't find a solution yet to sort 
> the form fields in the frontend form. Somebody knows a solution?
> 
> Next we need to add the labels for our new fields in the TS setup (in 
> our case in German):
> 
> plugin.tx_commerce_pi3 {
>    _LOCAL_LANG.de {
>        general_phone = Telefon
>        general_fax = Fax
>        general_custnumber = Kundennummer
>        general_gender = Anrede
> }
> 
> Now the new form fields shoud occur with labels in the frontend.
> One has to be carefull with the tt_address fields 'title' and 
> 'description' because the form fields are generated correctly BUT the 
> labels are not getting parsed correctly. They will be overwritten by the 
> following label values for billing or delivery :
> 
> plugin.tx_commerce_pi3 {
>    _LOCAL_LANG.de {
>        billing_title = Rechnungsadresse
>        billing_description = Angaben zur Rechnungsadresse
> }
> 
> This might be a bug though.
> 
> Our new address form field values are getting stored in the DB 
> automaticly while checking out.
> Next step is to create additional markers for the email template and to 
> substitute them by the form field values.
> That's were I'm just working on...
> 
> regards
> Heiko


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