hook for firstname / lastname needed for orders Class

[loop]

Hi All
whenn i make a
$order = new order( $_POST['oID'] );
the array is for customer / billing / delivery like this

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[delivery] => Array
        (
            [name] => firstname lastname 
            [company] => 
            [company2] => 
            [street_address] => xxx
            [suburb] => 
            [city] => xxx
            [postcode] => xxx
            [state] => 
            [country] => Array
                (
                    [title] => xxx
                )

            [country_id] => 204
            [address_format_id] => 1
            [format_id] => 1
        ) 

but what i need is firstname separate to lastname
so i can make $order->customer['firstname']

is this possible with a hook? thank you

[ecartz]

is this possible with a hook? thank you

Well, in the sense that you can use the databaseOrderBuild hook to set arbitrary fields, yes. The problem is that the order table doesn't save the first name separately. The way that other things handle this is to split on the first space. But there's little point in doing that in the hook. You can just do that whenever you need it.

Note that if you build the order from the cart, it will have a separate first name.

[loop]

hi ecartz
that's my exactly issue, in the cart prozess, i can have it as firstname, but afterwares, whenn order is done, i can't

about the "split" is difficult, as i don't know if the firstname for example "peter frank lastname" is peter oder peter frank so i can't split on a space....

[ecartz]

If you don't want to split on space, you would need to save the firstname in the orders table. You can do that with

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class hook_shop_siteWide_firstname {

  public function listen_insertOrder($parameters) {
    $parameters['sql_data']['orders']['customers_firstname'] = $GLOBALS['customer_data']->get('firstname', $GLOBALS['order']->customer);
    $parameters['sql_data']['orders']['delivery_firstname'] = $GLOBALS['customer_data']->get('firstname', $GLOBALS['order']->delivery);
    $parameters['sql_data']['orders']['billing_firstname'] = $GLOBALS['customer_data']->get('firstname', $GLOBALS['order']->billing);
  }

}

Note that you need to add the firstname columns to the orders table before doing that.

[loop]

i think i found a good workarround. I search the adressbook for the names and as soon as i have a match, i use this entry

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$customer_query = tep_db_query("SELECT entry_firstname, entry_lastname FROM address_book WHERE customers_id = '".(int)$order->customer['id']."'");
		while($customer_arr = tep_db_fetch_array($customer_query)){
      if($order->billing['name'] == $customer_arr['entry_firstname']." ".$customer_arr['entry_lastname']){
        echo $customer_arr['entry_firstname']." ".$customer_arr['entry_lastname']."<br>";
      }
    }