Dropdown login forms are not a feature many online stores use, but in some cases they could be quite useful UX feature. In this tutorial, I will explain how to create such a dropdown in a few minutes!

并不是每一个站都用下拉登陆菜单，但对某些时候确实非常实用。这次我们就来体验一下如何给Magento制作一个下拉登陆菜单。

 Let’s open app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/customer.xml and just add the line that’s highlighted.

打开上述文件app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/customer.xml ，添加高两部分代码。

<customer_logged_out>    <!---<reference name="right">        <block type="customer/form_login" name="customer_form_mini_login" before="-" template="customer/form/mini.login.phtml"/>    </reference>-->    <reference name="top.links">        <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer"><label>Log In</label><url helper="customer/getLoginUrl"/><title>Log In</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>100</position></action>        <block type="core/template" name="customer_form_mini_login" before="-" template="customer/form/mini.login.phtml"/>    </reference>    <remove name="reorder"></remove></customer_logged_out>

Open app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/form/mini.login.phtml as well and place the code below instead.

打开 app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/form/mini.login.phtml ，用下面代码替代。

<style>    #dropdown    {        position: absolute;        top: 70px;        right: 20px;        visibility: hidden;        float:right;    }    .last:hover #dropdown    {        visibility: visible;    }</style><div class="block block-login" id="dropdown">    <div class="block-title">        <strong><span><?php echo $this->__(‘Login‘) ?></span></strong>    </div>    <form action="<?php echo $this->getUrl(‘customer/account/loginPost‘) ?>" method="post">        <?php echo $this->getBlockHtml(‘formkey‘); ?>        <div class="block-content">            <label for="mini-login"><?php echo $this->__(‘Email:‘) ?></label><input type="text" name="login[username]" id="mini-login" class="input-text" />            <label for="mini-password"><?php echo $this->__(‘Password:‘) ?></label><input type="password" name="login[password]" id="mini-password" class="input-text" />            <div class="actions">                <button type="submit" class="button"><span><span><?php echo $this->__(‘Login‘) ?></span></span></button>            </div>        </div>    </form></div>

And that’s it! Your login form should appear when hovering over ‘Log In‘ link in the top menu:

Ok，现在去看看你的登录框吧，鼠标滑过Login，就出现了。

The important thing to note here is that we’re using Magento’s default mini.login.phtml with slight modifications for it to work on homepage.

We’re also using core/template block instead of customer/form_login. The reason for this is that the latter sets the page title to ‘Customer login‘ on all pages it’s being displayed on.

As a downside to using different block, we now can’t use methods of the customer/form_login block. That is why we’re using $this->getUrl(‘customer/account/loginPost’) as a form action instead of $this->getPostActionUrl().

It’s also important that you have a form key present, otherwise your form won’t get processed.

<?php echo $this->getBlockHtml(‘formkey‘); ?>

And all that’s left is to have your frontend developer (you?) make the dropdown pretty

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