How to prepopulate credit card form with customers name in Magento?

Question

In the checkout, how can one add the customer's name to the credit card form? Is there a way to get the customer name int the checkout page?

What I would like to do is have the customer's name during the checkout process to use in the steps.

For instance:

• Like, "Hello Joe, this is step 3"
• "You still with us Joe this is step 4"
• In the credit card form add their billing name with a little "x" to clear it if they want to use their uncles card.

How do I read the billing name to use it like this? The name appears in the progress bar so I thought that might work (as I don't show the bar).

It should be for all users, guests especially.

Answer 1

To get the customers name in the checkout and do something useful with it, get the name from the customers billingdata, which is saved in the quote. Mage::helper('checkout')->getQuote()->getBillingAddress()->getName()

The file you need is app/design/frontend/{YOUR_PACKAGE}/{YOUR_TEMPLATE}/template/payment/form/ccsave.phtml (you can copy it from app/design/frontend/rwd/default/template/payment/form/ccsave.phtml)

Add in the top of the file: (line 26)

$ccOwner = $this->getInfoData('cc_owner');
if (empty($ccOwner)) {
    // Update cc_owner from billing address
    $this->getMethod()
            ->getInfoInstance()
            ->setData('cc_owner', Mage::helper('checkout')->getQuote()->getBillingAddress()->getName());
}

To add the X to empty, add the next after the input field:

    <div class="input-box">
        <input type="text" title="<?php echo Mage::helper('core')->quoteEscape($this->__('Name on Card')) ?>" class="input-text required-entry" id="<?php echo $_code ?>_cc_owner" name="payment[cc_owner]" value="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($this->getInfoData('cc_owner')) ?>" />
        <a href="#" onclick="jQuery(this).prev().val(''); return false;" />X</a>
    </div>

Answer 2

to get the current (logged in) customer details:

if (Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()) {
   $customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
}

The resulting object will contain all the customers details.

Not sure what you want to do with the sidebar....