Magento get guest and logged in customers name, email and order number/reference number at checkout page

Question

I am trying to get the customer's name, email, and order number to pass to a payment gateway once the customer hits the place order button. So far I have managed to get the total using

$total = Mage::getModel('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal();

I tried using

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();

$email = $customer->getEmail();  

$firstname = $customer->getFirstname(); 

$lastname= $customer->getLastname(); 

but they don't seem to return a value. I know this because I echo the variables after, and none of them work but the $total. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The best way to do this is to create a Custom Payment Gateway module.

See

http://www.excellencemagentoblog.com/magento-create-custom-payment-method

Magento Custom Payment Gateway

http://roysimkes.net/blog/2009/11/creating-your-own-payment-gateway-for-magento-part-1/

http://roysimkes.net/blog/2009/11/creating-your-own-payment-gateway-for-magento-%E2%80%93-part-2/