Salutation instead of Gender

1 of 1494   Next >   Last >>   The following osCommerce contribution is a free Opensource code originated from official osCommerce website and provided for your reference only, you may download the original contribution file(s) and install it on your own; or you may request a Paid Installation Service from Agents Of Power; Agents Of Power does the "AS IS" installation on your website, we do not guarantee it will work properly on your website. Extra Paid service is available for repairing the problem from the original contribution or from your website. ========================================================= Salutation instead of Gender 1.0 ========================================================= 1:03 PM 5/14/2009 I don't know about other folks, but I've got this vague uneasiness about giving out too much information on the internet - even though I still do. Anyway, it always seemed to me a little invasive to ask "Male/Female" during account registration in osCommerce. But I also thought that this would be good demographic information to have about your cusotmer base. Being a good marketeer, I realized that this could be turned around by simply asking the question differently. By changing the selection to "Salutation" (as in Mr. or Ms.) customers may be more inclined to give you the same information. So, this contribution changes: "Gender: Male / Female" to "Salutation: Mr. / Ms." in both the account creation and edit screens, and the admin screen (with the SQL changes). Full package. Screen shots are included. Installation: ========================================================= Step 1 ALWAYS BACKUP FIRST! ========================================================= ========================================================= Step 2 Change Admin text ========================================================= catalog/admin/includes/languages/english.php FIND: (about line 51) // text for gender define('MALE', 'Male'); define('FEMALE', 'Female'); REPLACE WITH: // text for gender // BOF Salutation instead of Gender // define('MALE', 'Male'); // define('FEMALE', 'Female'); define('MALE', 'Mr.'); define('FEMALE', 'Ms.'); // EOF Salutation instead of Gender ----------- FIND: (about line 156) define('ENTRY_GENDER', 'Gender:'); REPLACE WITH: // BOF Salutation instead of Gender // define('ENTRY_GENDER', 'Gender:'); define('ENTRY_GENDER', 'Salutation:'); // EOF Salutation instead of Gender ========================================================= Step 3 Change Account Creation text ========================================================= catalog/includes/languages/english.php FIND: (about line 63) // text for gender define('MALE', 'Male'); define('FEMALE', 'Female'); REPLACE WITH: // text for gender // BOF Salutation instead of Gender // define('MALE', 'Male'); // define('FEMALE', 'Female'); define('MALE', 'Mr.'); define('FEMALE', 'Ms.'); // EOF Salutation instead of Gender ----------- FIND: (about line 165) define('ENTRY_GENDER', 'Gender:'); define('ENTRY_GENDER_ERROR', 'Please select your Gender.'); REPLACE WITH: // BOF Salutation instead of Gender //define('ENTRY_GENDER', 'Gender:'); //define('ENTRY_GENDER_ERROR', 'Please select your Gender.'); define('ENTRY_GENDER', 'Salutation:'); define('ENTRY_GENDER_ERROR', 'Please select your Salutation.'); // EOF Salutation instead of Gender ========================================================= Step 4 Change field labels in database (for Admin display) - use phpMyAdmin or similar. ========================================================= SQL code : UPDATE 'configuration' SET 'configuration_title' = 'Salutation' WHERE 'configuration'.'configuration_id' =63 LIMIT 1 ; UPDATE 'configuration' SET 'configuration_description' = 'Display salutation in the customers account' WHERE 'configuration'.'configuration_id' =63 LIMIT 1 ; ========================================================= Step 5 BACKUP Again! ========================================================= And you're done.    Posted on: 05/19/2009     See contribution details Request Installation with Paid service