Ubercart

I am currently working on this because I've seen it asked for a lot.

I need the ability to do something similar and am having a difficult time discovering the best method to accomplish it. I am developing a site that has two levels of membership - Free and Paid. I want the anonymous user to "create account" and as a part of the process of adding profile and location information have a dropdown to select the product (membership level). Within the same registration process, add CC information and consent to monthly billing.

If thats not hard enough, I am wanting the user to be able to change their membership level (Upgrade from Free to Paid) in the User Profile Edit page... In a nutshell, this:

http://basecamphq.com/signup

I don't think there is a module that can do what I am looking for, so what would be the appropriate hooks to use in a custom module to accomplish this?

I think this is similar to something I am working on at the moment- actually I have to get it done pretty quickly for a client.

I can't see the example page as I am outside the US, but I think you are describing a similar thing:

1) Show a product on a page
2) Show the entire checkout on the same page
3) Allow the user to checkout whilst the product automatically adds to the cart.

In my definition, this is an "express checkout" that means you can have a product landing page to purchase in 1 step.

Here are my findings so far:

* I created a module that would attempt to display the checkout as a block
* At the beginning of the block code, I lifted some of the cart links module code to automatically empty and add the product to the basket
* I limited the block so that it will only display if on a product node page

That works fine. The cart displays and I can enter card details etc.

I then send the user to the order review page at which point the workflow is back to normal.

There are a couple of major problems that I haven't solved yet:

1) Cart review page bounces you back to the checkout page if the page referrer isn't the checkout page - easy to fix with a hack, but not ideal
2) If you use credit card as payment process- and a direct payment gateway (we use SagePay), the encrypted card data is lost along the way.

I have been banging my head against this for days now, so anyone else's insight would be very welcome!

Hope this is relevant and I am not hijacking the thread.

Richard

Here's a zip of the module I am working on. Not finished by any means and does need ubercart core hacks to make it work.

However, maybe it will help someone else or someone else can help me resolve the remaining issues.

Richard

hi there.
i'm suscribing too.
i'm digging throuth the code since 7hours to see why the session get lost along the way.

this will be a good thing to have.

i finaly what the hell was going on under the hood thank to ZendDebugger.

debugger are tools i use often but sometime i'm lazy and don't want to configure it after a OS re-installation this result often in alot of loss of time.

So here is the problem:

uc_credit.module don't want the $_SESSION['sescrd'] variable to persist on any other pages than the "cart/checkout" one.
so what it does is using hook_exit to remove that variable if we are not viewing this page. and guess what? we are not looking at "cart/checkout" we are in fact on a "node/nid" page.

So now i got my first one page checkout page working like a charm.
We have many options:

1. patch uc_credit (not a goo idea)
2. making uc_credit think we are on "cart/checkout" by changing $_GET['q'] to "cart/checkout" wich is even worse i think because many modules that should act on node view page won't work anymore if they are relying on the $_GET['q'].
3. the third an beautiful solution is to backup the value of $_SESSION['sescrd' and implement our own hoo_exit to restore the value only if we are on a product page. (the trick here is to make sure that our module's hook_exit get called after the uc_credit one.

I think that we are finaly there. haven't implemented the last solution yet, but i think it will work and i will post an updated version ASAP.

by the way i think this will be a realy useful module if we fix all the bugs that might be hidden.

thanks.

Has any progress been made on this? TR's suggestion to use cart links is perfect EXCEPT if you want the user to select an attribute (such as a donation amount), which AFAIK you can't do with cart links.

This thread seems to have died - any luck elsewhere?