Magento add attribute to customer

$installer = $this;

$installer->startSetup();

$setup = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup');

$entityTypeId     = $setup->getEntityTypeId('customer');

$attributeSetId   = $setup->getDefaultAttributeSetId($entityTypeId);

$attributeGroupId = $setup->getDefaultAttributeGroupId($entityTypeId, $attributeSetId);

$setup->addAttribute('customer', 'your_attribute_code_here', array(

    'input'         => 'text', //or select or whatever you like

    'type'          => 'int', //or varchar or anything you want it

    'label'         => 'Attribute description goes here',

    'visible'       => 1,

    'required'      => 0, //mandatory? then 1

    'user_defined' => 1,

));

$setup->addAttributeToGroup(

 $entityTypeId,

 $attributeSetId,

 $attributeGroupId,

 'your_attribute_code_here',

 '100'

);

$oAttribute = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')->getAttribute('customer', 'your_attribute_code_here');

$oAttribute->setData('used_in_forms', array('adminhtml_customer')); 

$oAttribute->save();

$setup->endSetup();

5 Comments

• 
  filippo July 18, 2013 at 10:44 am

  Hi, I’m trying to add attribute to customer.

  it’s my first time with Magento.

  How i can run your script?

  Thank you very much for your help.

  Filippo

  Reply
• 
  Anil Konsal November 4, 2013 at 8:16 am

  Hi Kalpesh,

  Thanks for sharing your code.

  It worked like a charm. However, for beginners, you may add the steps like activating the module, adding folders and all that.

  Your Fan,

  Anil

  Reply
• 
  Gav May 8, 2014 at 12:34 pm

  Great tut – i would also like to see the ‘beginner steps’ for this 🙂

  Reply
• 
  Imogali July 5, 2014 at 9:10 am

  Thanks for the tutorial. It is great and has helped me correct.
  But I have a problem. I want to assign the customer prices per category.
  For example, This customer gets for category 1 the price of the customer group B, for category 2 the price of the customer group C and for category 3 the price of the customer group A.
  That’s why I created three fields. But somehow does not work. Has anyone of you a solution or possibly an extension that has the function?
  Thanks in advance!

  Reply
• 
  Sarvesh V Tiwari September 28, 2016 at 6:58 am

  Mr. can you tell me path where should i type this code. and i want to create attribute under account information tab.

  Reply