Separate shipping and payment steps and other issu

Hi, I have some questions, I'm building a custom template for hikashop.

1) The checkout workflow provides a single action for address, both for shipping and payment. My client requires the shipping address to be in the first step and the billing address to be in the second. Is this possible?

2) Is there an "add a gift message"/"this is a gift" option on checkout?

-- url of the page with the problem -- : mywebsite.com/mypage
-- HikaShop version -- : x.x.x
-- Joomla version -- : x.x
-- PHP version -- : x.x.x
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : XXXXX x.x.x
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : Error_message

Hi,

1.This kind of modification will require some code customization, and I don't think that this will be easy without some development skill and Hikashop/Joomla knowledge.

2. I think that you'll be able to do it by using a custom field from the "order" table which is only available through the Hikashop business version.

1. Is some core hacks? Or just template override code? I'm quite a skilled developer myself and Joomla ninja

2, Ok...

Thanks, do you have code samples on that.

Hi,

We don't have samples on that, because we don't have many requests on that.
But in the view "checkout / address", you can add a check on JRequest::getInt('step',0); to know in which step you are, if it's the first one so display only the billing address, and if it's the step 2 display the shipping one.

It will require more modifications than that to display the shipping fields by default instead of the checkbox"use the same address as billing", etc.