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I have a customer request to make it a bit clearer that the county drop-down list needs to be pre-selected in order to get various states and provinces to appear for a certain selected country. It seems the form is not intuitive to people checking out. So I want to tweak the form slightly by adding a text note.

The URL for check is http://mydomain.com/checkout/onepage/

I am modifying /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/default/template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml and /.../shipping.phtml

I upload my changes and go through each of the 4 cache flushes and also do a re-index of the database in the backend sys admin sections.

My changes do not take.

How can I modify the text content on the checkout form—Billing Information section and Shipping Information section?

Thank you.

Hi Franco

Are you using the default skin with Magento?

In your /app/design/frontend folder you’ve probably a number of different packages (eg. base) and themese (e.g. default). In your admin area navigation to System > Configuration > then click the ‘Design’ tab. Here you’ll be able to see the current package and theme you’re using.

Magento has a system of inheritance so template files in your current package have priority over the Magento defaults (base/default). Therefore is suspect you have a /app/design/frontend/<<PACAKGE>>/<<THEME>>/template/default/template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml

Cheers
Matt

Thanks @MattStephens.

I am using a package theme however the only directories under /app/design/frontend are:

- base
- default

My template/theme package does not have a custom overlay for the checkout/onepage (so it seems)

Do you think I should just make my own copy of billing.phtml and edit it? If so, where exactly should I store it?

@franco

Try turning on template path hints in the admin panel System > Config > developer tab (bottom) > “debug” and turn on template path hints. This should show you the location of the template file it’s using

What do you have inside default, I suspects it’s hidden in there.

Cheers

Ok, did that. Thanks @MattStephens

I a running 1.7.2 so what I had in System > Config > Advanced > Developer was Template Settings > Allow Symlinks.

I set it to yes.

Then I went through a checkout again but nothing was revealed to me.

I have update the billing.phtml in the default directory path on my Magento. I flushed the 4 cache settings and even re-index. I did this about 10-12 times

I could never get my modification to appear.

Hello,

Sorry my apologies, the template path hints is turned on in the “debug” options of developer, not “template settings”. [amended previous reply]

Cheers

Ok, thanks for your continued help @MattStephens.

I went into System > Configuration > Advanced > Developer > Debug

I set the Profiler from “No” to “Yes”

I then stepped through my checkout again and on the “Billing Information” page I discovered “[profiler]” in the footer

Here is what is down there:

[profiler]

Memory usage: real: 49020928, emalloc: 48499944

Code Profiler Time Cnt Emalloc RealMem

Now what do I need to do?

@franco

You need to edit template path hints, not the profiler. See the image below.

Cheers

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Hmm, I am running v 1.7.2.

I’ll need to see if I can locate that

@MattStephens. Can you help me with the settings base on my version 1.7.2. See screen shot below:

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@franco, On the left in the top screen when you visit that page you should have a dropdown (store selector), the template path hints option only becomes available when you select a website (grey option) or a store view (below that). If you’re on the Default option it won’t appear.

Thanks again @MattStephens.

The path and template files seem to be listed below. But these are no where to be found on my server. Very odd…

frontend/base/default/template/persistent/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml

frontend/base/default/template/customer/widget/name.phtml
*First Name
*Last Name

Hello,

They’ll definitely be there if referenced. Make sure you\’re looking for a persistent folder in the template folder, not getting it confused with the checkout.

Cheers

Found it and edited it. Thanks @MattStephens