How to extend and rearrange eCart's checkout pages?

I have spend the better part of a day trying to customize the checkout pages for my website. My website uses the UPS shipping module. However, I would like to emulate other websites, like IKEA.com where the customer first types in the billing and shipping address and on the next page this results in the shipping calculation. After the customer knows how much the shipping will cost then they can enter their credit cart details and get to a final confirm all details page. I made a lot of progress only to be stumped after the transaction is completed. PayPal does not enter the email address correctly. The recorded email for the customer is: invalid_email_supplied@PayPal.com.

Obviously something is broken here despite the successful transaction. I am not a PHP programmer so I am basically hacking code around to make it all work. If anyone has any experience in extending the checkout process beyond eCart's default 3 page checkout process I will be grateful for any advice on how to make it all work.

What paypal payment type are you using? It sounds like a problem with the local checkout server behavior email setting on the confirm page.

I am using the PayPal local Direct Payment scheme. I quite possible could have accidentally deleted some key PHP data. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Then you need to track down the problem from there?

Open the local checkout server behavior on the confirm page. What does it have set as the email field value?

Is it correct? Does it have a value when you display it on the page? Is it the same as where the email is displayed on the page?

The email value field is carried correctly from page to page. On the checkout completion page the email however looks like this: email@address.com ?>

I am not sure why the ?> symbols are diplaying but it results in the captured email address as: invalid_email_supplied@PayPal.com

The session variable for the email address is as follows:

<?php

if (!session_id()) session_start();
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
$_SESSION["eCartCheckoutForm_email"] = "".((isset($_POST["email"]))?$_POST["email"]:"") ."";
}
?>

I hope this helps. Everything is working except the capture of the customers email address.

Please post a support incident. I think you may need help debugging this one and it may take too long going back and forth in this forum.

O.K. I managed to get the local checkout working where is captures the correct email address of the customer. I just needed to "tighten up" the code on confirm.php page.

However, I am having a new problem as the PayPal Express Checkout Button does not work. The button has been placed on a secondary checkout page and not checkout.php. Clicking the PayPal Express Checkout Button results in being taken to the checkout_failure.php with an error code 10727. The detailed error message is "There's an error with this transaction. Please enter an address1 in the shipping address."

Any suggestions on how to get the PayPal button working?

What server behavior is running on the page? You shouldn't need an address until after you get back from the authorization for express checkout. It sounds like you might be trying to process your payment when you get this error, but it also sounds like you haven't actually gotten to the paypal web site yet.

That is why the error makes no sense, because the address should be set after they log in to paypal and not on the way. What server behaviors do you have applied to the page? What part of the process is giving this error? The solution is going to involve editing the Server Behavior related to the error, but I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what is happenning so I don't know for sure.

Just to keep things organized, I have developed the following page structure, although the names of the final debugged pages will eventually change . The first checkout page is called checkout-alt.php. Checkout-alt.php has no server behaviors running but it does take the billing and shipping address form data to the next page called checkout-alt-2.php. Checkout-alt-2.php contains the following server bevaiors: PayPal Express Checkout Authentication, eCart UPS Shipping, eCart Local Checkout as well as all the eCart Set Session Values for all of the form data.

The part of the process giving me the error is when I am on the second checkout page, checkout-alt-2.php and click the PayPal Express Checkout Button. Clicking this button results in being taken to chekout_failure.php page.

I hope this helps explain things a little better.

I think you are working in two threads right now. Please use just one.

The most recent entry in the other thread suggested you might have the wrong form action for your express checkout form.