In the Magento2, checkout process is the most crucial part of the site. In this site owner expets that to know more about the customization of the shipping or payment information.
Magento provides the ability to add a custom form to any of the checkout steps: Shipping Information, Review and Payment Information, or custom.
In this article, we will demonstrate how to add the new form before the Shipping Address form.
In this custom form, we are going to add 4 different types of fields:-
-
- Text field
- Dropdown field
- Date field
- Checkbox
with the validation.
There are only 3 steps for this. Let’s understand those one by one:-
3 Steps to add a new input form to checkout page
-
- Step 1: Create the form UI component.
- Step 2: Create template of the form.
- Step 3: Register the form in the checkout page layout.
You should know how to create a basic Magento 2 module. All of customized files will be inside this module.
Let’s begin.
Step 1: Create the form UI component.
First of all, create custom-checkout-form.js in Thecoachsmb/ShippingForm/view/frontend/web/js/view directory.
/*global define*/
define([
'Magento_Ui/js/form/form'
], function(Component) {
'use strict';
return Component.extend({
initialize: function () {
this._super();
// component initialization logic
return this;
},
/**
* Form submit handler
*
* This method can have any name.
*/
onSubmit: function() {
// trigger form validation
this.source.set('params.invalid', false);
this.source.trigger('customCheckoutForm.data.validate');
// verify that form data is valid
if (!this.source.get('params.invalid')) {
// data is retrieved from data provider by value of the customScope property
var formData = this.source.get('customCheckoutForm');
// do something with form data
console.dir(formData);
}
}
});
});
Step 2: Create template of the form.
Add the knockout.js HTML template custom-checkout-form.html for the form component under the Thecoachsmb/ShippingForm/view/frontend/web/template directory.
<div>
<form id="custom-checkout-form" class="form" data-bind="attr: {'data-hasrequired': $t('* Required Fields')}">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend data-bind="i18n: 'Custom Checkout Form'"></legend>
<!-- ko foreach: getRegion('custom-checkout-form-fields') -->
<!-- ko template: getTemplate() --><!-- /ko -->
<!--/ko-->
</fieldset>
<button type="reset">
<span data-bind="i18n: 'Reset'"></span>
</button>
<button type="button" data-bind="click: onSubmit" class="action">
<span data-bind="i18n: 'Submit'"></span>
</button>
</form>
</div>
Step 3: Register the form in the checkout page layout.
We will add the new form before the shipping form.
Comparing to our last “Newsletter” component, this form is quite the similar
Except for the fact that the template and the whole form is in the xml itself (children node).
The reason we don’t write a normal html form is because of the way it (the form) declared. Normal html form cannot know how to communicate with the form component (the js file).
Create checkout_index_index.xml in the Thecoachsmb/ShippingForm/view/frontend/layout directory.
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="1column" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<body>
<referenceBlock name="checkout.root">
<arguments>
<argument name="jsLayout" xsi:type="array">
<item name="components" xsi:type="array">
<item name="checkout" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="steps" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="shipping-step" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="shippingAddress" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="before-form" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<!-- newsletter component -->
<item name="newsletter" xsi:type="array">
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Thecoachsmb_ShippingForm/js/view/newsletter</item>
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<item name="componentDisabled" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
</item>
</item>
<!-- new form -->
<item name="custom-checkout-form-container" xsi:type="array">
<!--links to our js file in step 1-->
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Thecoachsmb_ShippingForm/js/view/custom-checkout-form</item>
<item name="provider" xsi:type="string">checkoutProvider</item>
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<!--links to our html file in step 2-->
<item name="template" xsi:type="string">Thecoachsmb_ShippingForm/custom-checkout-form</item>
</item>
<!-- new element -->
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="custom-checkout-form-fieldset" xsi:type="array">
<!-- uiComponent is used as a wrapper for form fields (its template will render all children as a list) -->
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">uiComponent</item>
<!-- the following display area is used in template (see below) -->
<item name="displayArea" xsi:type="string">custom-checkout-form-fields</item>
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="text_field" xsi:type="array">
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Magento_Ui/js/form/element/abstract</item>
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<!-- customScope is used to group elements within a single form (e.g. they can be validated separately) -->
<item name="customScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm</item>
<item name="template" xsi:type="string">ui/form/field</item>
<item name="elementTmpl" xsi:type="string">ui/form/element/input</item>
</item>
<item name="provider" xsi:type="string">checkoutProvider</item>
<item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm.text_field</item>
<item name="label" xsi:type="string">Text Field</item>
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">1</item>
<item name="validation" xsi:type="array">
<item name="required-entry" xsi:type="string">true</item>
</item>
</item>
<item name="checkbox_field" xsi:type="array">
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Magento_Ui/js/form/element/boolean</item>
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<!--customScope is used to group elements within a single form (e.g. they can be validated separately)-->
<item name="customScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm</item>
<item name="template" xsi:type="string">ui/form/field</item>
<item name="elementTmpl" xsi:type="string">ui/form/element/checkbox</item>
</item>
<item name="provider" xsi:type="string">checkoutProvider</item>
<item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm.checkbox_field</item>
<item name="label" xsi:type="string">Checkbox Field</item>
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">3</item>
</item>
<item name="select_field" xsi:type="array">
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Magento_Ui/js/form/element/select</item>
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<!--customScope is used to group elements within a single form (e.g. they can be validated separately)-->
<item name="customScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm</item>
<item name="template" xsi:type="string">ui/form/field</item>
<item name="elementTmpl" xsi:type="string">ui/form/element/select</item>
</item>
<item name="options" xsi:type="array">
<item name="0" xsi:type="array">
<item name="label" xsi:type="string">Please select value</item>
<item name="value" xsi:type="string"></item>
</item>
<item name="1" xsi:type="array">
<item name="label" xsi:type="string">Value 1</item>
<item name="value" xsi:type="string">value_1</item>
</item>
<item name="2" xsi:type="array">
<item name="label" xsi:type="string">Value 2</item>
<item name="value" xsi:type="string">value_2</item>
</item>
</item>
<!-- value element allows to specify default value of the form field -->
<item name="value" xsi:type="string">value_2</item>
<item name="provider" xsi:type="string">checkoutProvider</item>
<item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm.select_field</item>
<item name="label" xsi:type="string">Select Field</item>
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">2</item>
</item>
<item name="date_field" xsi:type="array">
<item name="component" xsi:type="string">Magento_Ui/js/form/element/date</item>
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<!--customScope is used to group elements within a single form (e.g. they can be validated separately)-->
<item name="customScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm</item>
<item name="template" xsi:type="string">ui/form/field</item>
<item name="elementTmpl" xsi:type="string">ui/form/element/date</item>
</item>
<item name="provider" xsi:type="string">checkoutProvider</item>
<item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">customCheckoutForm.date_field</item>
<item name="label" xsi:type="string">Date Field</item>
<item name="validation" xsi:type="array">
<item name="required-entry" xsi:type="string">true</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</argument>
</arguments>
</referenceBlock>
</body>
</page>
Now time to flush cache and test your result. If you have any issue, feel free to leave a comment below.
Conclusion
In this article, we learned about adding custom form with different types of fields. Only with three steps, we could do this in Magento2. do follow each and every step for the exact result.
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