John McCarthy

Hi ancawonka, wondered if you’d take a look at where I’m at?

I’m sure you’re busy so if it seems like I’m lost then please just ignore me.

I’ve spent pretty much the whole week in the class-wc-cart.php file and trying to figure out if I can save the required data to the cart. My conclusion so far is… I don’t think so, not in the way I want to.

Now I’ve moved into simply setting my data to the WC session and retrieving it.

Here’s a simplified version

Template form

<form name="checkout" method="post" class="checkout woocommerce-checkout" action="http://localhost:28/camplight.dev/checkout" enctype="multipart/form-data">

    <p class="form-row form-row woocommerce-validated" id="create_new_group_field">

        <label for="create_new_group" class="">Create a new group</label>

	<input type="text" class="input-text " name="create_new_group" id="create_new_group" placeholder="" value="">

    </p>

    <input type="submit" class="button alt" name="" id="place_order" value="submit" data-value="submit" />

</form>

Functions

/**
 * 1. Set and Save data to WooCommerce session
 */
function set_and_save_input_to_session( $group_input_value ) {

	// Test if we're in admin where WC()->session isn't set
	if( !is_admin( ) ) {

		// User input
		$group_input_value =  $_POST['create_new_group']; 

		// Set session and save data
		WC()->session->set( 'group_order_data', $group_input_value );
	}
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_process', 'set_and_save_input_to_session', 1, 1 );

/**
 * 2. Retrieve and save data to order meta
 */
function retrieve_and_save_group_input_value_to_order_meta( $retrived_group_input_value, $order_id ) {

	// Get group_input_value
	$retrived_group_input_value = WC()->session->get( 'name_for_your_data' );

	update_post_meta( $order_id, '_create_new_group', $retrived_group_input_value ) );
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta', 'retrieve_and_save_group_input_value_to_order_meta', 10, 2 );

I could be way off I know this, but, I really want to do this and do it right. What do think, am I close?

@ancawonka – Welcome, I’m looking into a solution and will keep this post updated as I develop a solution.

I’m currently looking into adding the additional details/meta to by creating a new page after the cart but before the checkout that contains a custom form which saves the data to the order meta.

Will check back soon.

Hi Otto,

So looking through the code I’m not sure how useful it would be to you, so I’ll just give you the concept for now.

I added two new fields to the WooCommerce checkout:
1. Create new group
2. Join existing group.

Then upon user submission I checked values entered and saved the values to the post_mtea of the order:
1. If the user wanted to “create new group” I checked to see if the group existed in the database already, if so throw an error if not save the group name to their order.
2. If the user wanted to be added to “Join an existing group”; I checked to see if the group exists if it did I saved if not throw an error.

This system gave us a simple meta value to export in our CSV that allowed us to group customers with the same group name together when out in the field setting up their tents.

I’d be happy to go through any of this in more detail or working together on a better solution.

Best,
John

Really cool Nate, thanks for letting me know.

Another thank you for the great plugin, as designer and part developer it’s very refreshing to use the plugin. I’ve used similar solutions and even built one just to have the basic functionality and transparency needed.

All the best mate.

Thanks for filling me in on that one Justin I didn’t know this was added to core, that’s great news!

I’m somewhat the way there. When removing the title argument the metabox appears where I want it. But I don’t want to remove the Metabox wrap. So, when leaving the title intact, I get a Metabox where I’ve hooked it in, but it’s repeated in a default location too.

Here’s a gist of the code I’m using

Can you see a fault with my implementation?

Thanks for your input Chris.

Yeah dev tools was open, no errors and only one slide loading outside of the customizer.looking at the console log you could see that the javascript was working fine, reporting my mouse hover and pausing and replaying.

I carried on developing and assumed that it would work when I went to a staging version. It did. For now my only conculusion is that browsersync was something to do with invrestigate. I’ve just switched from live-reload and didn’t experience problems before, but I haven’t yet had the time to properly invrestigate.

Any thoughts on this?