Move Customer Edit Form into Account Dashboard

Question

My magento store currently has the default layout for my customer account dashboard. One of the sections in the dashboard is the contact information which uses the template

customer/account/info.phtml

If a customer wants to edit their contact information they go from:

www.site.com/customer/account/
(calls template customer/account/dashboard.phtml and customer/account/info.phtml)

to

www.site.com/customer/account/edit/
(calls template customer/form/edit.phtml)

Is there a way i can move the actual edit form into the dashboard itself?

Answer 1

create or edit the file local.xml from your respected theme layout folder (app/design/frontend/your package/your theme/layout/) and add the following code in it

<customer_account_index translate="label">
 <reference name="customer_account_dashboard">
 <block type="customer/form_edit" name="customer_edit" as="customeredit" template="customer/form/edit.phtml"/>
 </reference>
</customer_account_index>

now edit the file at app/design/frontend/your package/your theme/template/customer/account/dashboard.phtml and add the following line wherever suites you best

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('customeredit') ?>

not tested but hope it will work

Answer 2

if you want add below code in customer.xml and

add

 <customer_account translate="label">
........
 <reference name="content">
 <!-- add below .... -->
 <block type="customer/form_edit" name="you_customer_edit" 
 template="customer/form/edit.phtml"/>
<!--- end of -->

Or create local.xml under app/design/frontend/yourpackage/yourtemplate/layout/

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
<customer_account>
 <reference name="content">
 <block type="customer/form_edit" name="you_customer_edit" template="customer/form/edit.phtml" after="my.account.wrapper" />
 </reference>
</<customer_account>
</layout>