Magento - Set default value for attribute field

Question

I created a new customer attribute with the select tag and the various options. When I try to create a new customer, this field returns the vacuum to me as the default value.

I want to force the default option in the select field of the attribute with the php. How can I do?

The module with which I create custom attributes for customers is called "Manage Customer Attributes Extension"

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using Magento's default customer Account Information tab to see this information in admin then you can see this file:

/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Customer/Edit/Tab/Account.php

In this file you can see these 2 lines which set the form data in admin:

$form->setValues($customer->getData());
$this->setForm($form);

So you can add below code above these lines to update any customer attribute value to be seen in admin Account Information tab:

$admin_user_session = Mage::getSingleton('admin/session');
$adminuserId = $admin_user_session->getUser()->getUserId();
if($adminuserId ==68){
//like below code you can set particular customer attribute value as per your requirement 
$customer->setFirstname('test');

}

Note: This code will only manipulate the customer data before showing on Account information tab it will not update the actual customer data, if you want to update use

$customer->save(); after the above code

Also this is the core file, so please override in your module as not recommended to modify core files.