Check Out without Payment Gateway, but Capture User Details

Hi

I hope you can help and I am sure you are fed up of the phrase I am new to Ecart, PHP and MySQL, sadly I have to say it again, so please bear with me.

I am trying to set up a subscription site (so no physical objects being brought) as part of what we offer is 10 days free trial and then we contact the clients to get their payment details.

The thing is I need to collect not only the subsciption type price etc like an order, but also need to collect and store the users details in a database which I would then like to use with Security Assist to gain access to the subscription only parts of the site.

I have made a start and find myself running around in circles. I have tried setting it up with a payment gateway and then removing the gateway but all I seem to be able to do is collect the order details, but failing to capture the user details. I am happy to start again, but appreciate a step by step run through (idiots guide) to how to set this up or some helpful suggestions.

Many thanks for your time.

Where you are selling subscriptions, you will want to force the users to register / login before they can checkout. See the "How to apply Login/Register functionality to your Checkout Process" tutorial in the how to section of the eCart support page for information on this.

The user registration will be the user details.

In the orders table, you should have an OrderUserID column. This will be used to relate the order to the logged in user.

The first part of the "How to create an Order History page" how to on the eCart support page goes into how to accomplish this.

The eCart support page is herre:
ecart/

Thank you so much for your help. I have followed the instructions but I get the following error when you click the checkout button on the confirm.php page:


Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 554 5.7.7 Helo invalid . in C:\Users\Owner\Documents\xampp-win32-1.7.2\xampp\htdocs\4ma\WA_Universal_Email\mail_PHP.php on line 260

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Users\Owner\Documents\xampp-win32-1.7.2\xampp\htdocs\4ma\WA_Universal_Email\mail_PHP.php:260) in C:\Users\Owner\Documents\xampp-win32-1.7.2\xampp\htdocs\4ma\confirm.php on line 157

Thanks

Jo

This error means the To address in universal Email no correct. On the confirm page, double click the universal email server behavior and check that the to address is set correctly.

Thanks Jason, but still confused as I want the email to be sent to the user that is logged in/subscribing and have tried various different codes in the "To" value as follows:

Setting a recordset and recalling that: <?php echo $row_Recordset1['UserEmail']; ?>

Session: <?php echo $_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_email']; ?>

Even To the Ecart Check Out form (which poputates from the user login details): <?php echo((isset($_POST["email"]))?$_POST["email"]:"") ?>

Each of these return the same error as previously mentioned.

I am sure I am missing something. but would appreciate a point in the right direction.

Thanks

Jo

Actually just tested it using a static email address - mine and still get this error. So it doesn't seem to be an email address error - any suggestions?

Hi

Well I got to the bottom of the original problem - it was to do with my testing server not having the send mail set up - have altered php.ini and now I don't get the error message, but I don't get any emails either. I have set it up to send the confirmation email to myself.

I have XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP etc) server running on Vista.

I have looked at some other posts that indicates there maybe some problems with running on apache server, but I haven't got any choice.

Also added the following as per a previous post who seemed to be having the same problem:

$mailObj = mail($mailTo,$mailSubject,$mailContent,$mailHeader );
var_dump($mailObj);
echo(" : ");
echo($mailTo);
echo(" : ");
echo("$mailHeader");
die();

and received the following

bool(true) : jo4koalas@gmail.com : MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="WAMULTIBREAKWA" From: 4ma Reply-To: info@4ma.com.au X-Sender: 4ma X-Priority: 3 Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:17:27 +1100 (EST)

Any help I would be grateful as come to complete standstill.

Jo

Its tough to get to the bottom of mail sending issues on a local testing server. It may be that the SMTP server will not except incoming connections from an outside source or it could be an issue with the SMTP server itself.
It is best to test email functionality on your remote server rather than trying to test it locally.l

Thank you Jason for your help. Just a quick question on a slightly different topic - is there anyway to alter the cart without re-running the display manager. Say for example I wanted to add discounts to the cart page, but previously I wasn't going to have discount so I elected to not show it, but now want to include it - how do I go about adding it to the page with re-doing everything?

For that sort of alteration you need to re apply the cart display manager to the cart display page, it will be difficult to add the discount display manually.