Question

Today i started working in registration form in magento site. As you know by default it’s having gender drop down. I need to change that to checkbox.

So far i went to register.phtml file, and tried to add <input type="radio" ...../> select files, but this didn’t worked.

Did anyone know how to solve this !
please give me some suggestions to so this….

Answer 1

Magento uses widgets on registration form. In fact in template register.phtml you can see lines:

<?php $_gender = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('customer/widget_gender') ?>
<?php if ($_gender->isEnabled()): ?>
    <li><?php echo $_gender->setGender($this->getFormData()->getGender())->toHtml() ?></li>
<?php endif ?>

This particular widget can be found in template/customer/widget directory. So in order to change select into radio buttons, copy it (template) to your theme and modify, e.g.:

<div class="input-box">
    <label><?php echo $this->__('Gender'); ?></label>
    <?php $options = Mage::getResourceSingleton('customer/customer')->getAttribute('gender')->getSource()->getAllOptions();?>
    <?php $value = $this->getGender();?>
    <?php foreach ($options as $option):?>
    <input type="radio" name="<?php echo $this->getFieldName('gender')?>" value="<?php echo $option['value'] ?>"<?php if ($option['value'] == $value) echo ' selected="selected"' ?> /><?php echo $option['label'] ?>
    <br />
    <?php endforeach;?>
</div>

Hope didn’t make any typo.