Comments on: Extending Order object and hooking on event in Magento

By: Rafael Kutscha

Rafael Kutscha — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:23:26 +0000

Nice tutorial to start with magento events!

By: jack

jack — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:16:36 +0000

is this tutorial applicable to Magento 1.5.0? as i keep receiving error that: ‘Method “hookToOrderSaveEvent” is not deined in “” ‘

By: dgento

dgento — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:15:27 +0000

thanks…this tutorial helps me to correct my mistake that I did in config.xml

By: buswah

buswah — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:08:39 +0000

Thanks for breaking it down!

By: Srdjan

Srdjan — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:13:46 +0000

What I don’t get is what is the purpose of (line 16) – what is it and what does it actually do?

By: Ozair Kafray

Ozair Kafray — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:41:34 +0000

This article was very useful for me for hooking to customer_login event. I could not find a clearer custom_module/etc/config.xml file in any of the other blogs/pages/wikis/forums

By: BMC

BMC — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:48:16 +0000

FYI – I was using 1.3.3.0

The EAV attribute was created in eav_attribute table. What I did not expect was that data would actually be stored in the sales_order_varchar table. (I was incorrectly looking at eav_entity_X tables and sales_order_entity_X tables.)

Looking further as to why, it is because the 11 specified as the entity_type_id for a sales_order stores data in the sales_order_X tables. Imagine that! Right where it is supposed to be.

By: Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:31:51 +0000

This tutorial was made on Magento 1.3 version. There have been some changes in the Sales module regarding its use of EAV in Magento. This might be causing the issue.

By: dvbii

dvbii — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:01:46 +0000

I am simply trying to add an attribute called ‘recipient’ to the order model. I agree with the question above, and add a problem. Using the second part of the “quick and dirty” setup, i am getting an error stating Class ‘Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup’ not found.
Odd?

By: BMC

BMC — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:25:31 +0000

Unfortunately I cannot get past the ‘quick and dirty’ steps of adding the attribute to the order. I am not sure why the attribute should be added as and eav_attribute?

Also, why is it that almost all of the attributes listed underneath app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Entity/Setup.php simply have => array(), or => array(‘type’ => int), when the example attribute has some many more?

By: Zoran

Zoran — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:29:24 +0000

Thank you for the nice explanation.
Does this mean i can watch for any already fired events from Magento itself. What if some events are caught by core Observer classes, am i able to catch them too with my own Observer methods?

By: STANISLAS Pierre

STANISLAS Pierre — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:33:13 +0000

Hello , does this code work with 1.3.2.4. ? I’ve tried the above code without success even with ‘codePool’ in the xml. It seems like function hookToOrderSaveEvent() is never executed. Can someone please provide a zip of working files ? Thank you.

By: Lee Powers

Lee Powers — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:56:48 +0000

In my previous comment:

it’s the XML codePool tag – in the article example the tag is spelled codepool

By: Lee Powers

Lee Powers — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:55:45 +0000

The XML (as noted in the article) is incorrect – one character is off in app/etc/modules/Inchoo_HookSystem.xml and causes the whole example to fail:

local

Corrected (note the p):

local

Very annoying! Found it out by comparing with the Magento wiki example:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/customizing_magento_using_event-observer_method

By: Chad Tomkiss

Chad Tomkiss — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:35:24 +0000

It seems that the checkout_onepage_controller_success_action event does not actually run the method.

Have you guys had this problem?

After so much research, every topic uses the same event.

Have refreshed the cache etc, still no luck.

On another note:

http://ajzele.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/magento-events-cheat-sheet.pdf

Good resource for Observer events.

Regards,
Chad

By: thomas s

thomas s — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:10:52 +0000

hey branko !!

cant get it work … i just create the same module as you , but nothing happen i think the hook didn’t actually work for me ….
is that too much asking of you that you send me your source code for this particular module ?

By: smivks

smivks — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:47:12 +0000

Hi,

I can access extra info by using
{{var order.getExtraInfo().format(‘html’)}}.

But problem is that it is in format of serialize and it shows like

a:2:{s:10:”CreditCard”;s:11:”Master Card”;s:26:”Total Pyament Installments”;s:1:”1″;}

How to unserialize this for displaying in proper format?

Thanks

By: smivks

smivks — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:21:31 +0000

Hi,
This article helps me a lot and implement successfully.

I use this article to display credit card info (Visa, Master Card and number of installments etc..) in order detail at admin side.

But i also use this information when order email send to the customer.

So how can i access this info in email template.

Thanks

By: Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:32:05 +0000

@QB3RT

Maybe this can help http://ajzele.net/entityextender-extend-all-magento-entity-objects-at-once/

By: QB3RT

QB3RT — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:05:16 +0000

@ Scott, We are currently doing something similar, to manage products via the API, and the only solution it seems is to extend the API classes/objects themselves (adding your own fields).