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

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://activecodeline.com/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://activecodeline.com/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).

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:53:30 +0000

Thanks for the great article. We also have added a field to our sales_order table. Any idea how to make a new field searchable via the api?

By: Yogendra Mishra

Yogendra Mishra — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:10:02 +0000

Hello,

I found this stuff really nice and I am trying to do the same. Thanks for this nice article for getting started with my new module and soon I will return with good results.

Thanks alot

By: Neal Harmon

Neal Harmon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:49:11 +0000

I was looking for a better way to do this (I was going to extend the controller by over-riding the saveOrderAction method). Thanks for taking time to document it Branko!