Question

I have the login form and register form, integrated in the same page. ie, in the login page itself.

I am having a problem in showing the error messages, as if error occurs in any one of the forms, then the error messages are displayed in both the login and register sections.

for example, suppose if we provide wrong login data to login, then the error message is displayed on the top of both the login and register forms, since both the forms are in the same page.

If we try to register with an already existing email address, then also, error message saying email already exists, displayed on the top of login form and register form.

My requirement is that i need to display the error message only in the corresponding form.

In order to integrate both login and register form in to the login page itself, i changed the file \app\design\frontend\anz\default\layout\customer.xml and it is as follows

Layout for customer login page

<customer_account_login translate="label">
    <label>Customer Account Login Form</label>
    <!-- Mage_Customer -->
    <remove name="right"/>
    <remove name="left"/>

    <reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="customer/form_login" name="customer_form_login" template="customer/form/login.phtml"/>
    </reference>


    <!-- Mage_Customer -->
    <remove name="right"/>
    <remove name="left"/>
    <reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>
    <block type="page/html_wrapper" name="customer.form.register.fields.before" translate="label">
        <label>Form Fields Before</label>
        <!--action method="setMayBeInvisible"><value>1</value></action-->
        <action method="setElementClass"><value>rewards</value></action>
    </block>
    <block type="enterprise_customer/form" template="customer/form/userattributes.phtml" name="customer_form_user_attributes">
        <action method="setFormCode"><code>customer_account_create</code></action>
        <action method="setEntityModelClass"><code>customer/customer</code></action>
    </block>
    <block type="enterprise_customer/form" template="customer/form/userattributes.phtml" name="customer_form_address_user_attributes">
        <action method="setFormCode"><code>customer_register_address</code></action>
        <action method="setEntityModelClass"><code>customer/address</code></action>
    </block>
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="customer/form_register" name="customer_form_register" template="customer/form/register.phtml">
            <action method="append"><block>customer.form.register.fields.before</block><alias>form_fields_before</alias></action>
            <action method="append"><block>customer_form_user_attributes</block></action>
            <action method="append"><block>customer_form_address_user_attributes</block></action>
        </block>
    </reference>
    <update handle="customer_form_template_handle"/>



</customer_account_login>

I am a newbie in magento. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I tried a simple way to achieve the requirement. There may be better ways to do this, but I think this one is simple.

I had created a hidden variable and I put those hidden variable in forms to identify which form is submitted. These hidden variable is passed as a parameter after completing the corresponding action. Then I provided an if block to display the messages according to the parameter value.

I did this all by overriding the Mage Customer module.