[SOLVED] Replacing Order reference textfield with a custom title in the contact form

[Masteries]

If you're a visitor on a Prestashop site, the contact form shows three textfields: Order reference, e-mail and message. However, not everyone has made an order & has an order reference so therefore I'd like to allow them to write a custom title instead. Currently, they can type in whatever numbers they want but if they type in a string/character in the Order reference field, the title of the e-mail I receive turns out like this: [shop] Regarding: {id_order}. As long as they type whatever number they want, the title of the e-mail I receive is fine even if the order reference is nonexistent in the database. I know that Order reference field allows only integer/numerical values, so I tried changing the following line (53) CustomerThread.php: 

 

'id_order' => array('type' => self::TYPE_INT, 'validate' => 'isUnsignedId')

to:

 

'id_order' =>  array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'validate' => 'isGenericName')

and I also changed the ps_customer_thread table structure so that id_order is set to VARCHAR instead of INT, this solution did not seem to work.

 

I know that I have to edit some more stuff in ContactController.php and contact-form.tpl but there were too many lines that contained "id_order" so I did not know what exactly to edit as my knowledge in PHP is limited (most of them also gets the value of id_order as int/intval). For example, this line is recurring throughout ContactController.php:

 

(int)Tools::getValue('id_order')

Would removing the (int) part on all those lines solve this (along with all the other steps I have done)? If so, how do I do it correctly?

 

Any pointers on this would be really appreciated as I have been having this problem for a while now. Prestashop should definitely work on adding some customizability to the in-built contact form in the BO..

Edited September 6, 2016 by Masteries (see edit history)

[vekia]

can you describe what is the effect of the modification you made?
- you've got some errors while you try to send form ?
- there is no error and "title" is not send ?

[Masteries]

can you describe what is the effect of the modification you made?

- you've got some errors while you try to send form ?

- there is no error and "title" is not send ?

 

-there is no error and "title" is not send ?

 

The modifications I made simply did not work. There were no errors and the title was still the following: [shop] Regarding {id_order}. Do you think I should just make a new field instead?

Edited August 8, 2016 by Masteries (see edit history)

[vekia]

it is not enough to change id_order data type

there are a lot of dependencies both in front and back office where id_order variable is used 

because of this - it will be much better to extend the form with additional fielnd instead of modify id_order
simply saying, this kind of change will generate a lot of problems

[Masteries]

it is not enough to change id_order data type

there are a lot of dependencies both in front and back office where id_order variable is used 

because of this - it will be much better to extend the form with additional fielnd instead of modify id_order

simply saying, this kind of change will generate a lot of problems

 

Ah I see, I will just create a new field instead in that case. Thanks for your help!