Magento - Get custom form field value from product page

Question

I have a Magento shop in which my client wants to sell personalized gift items. For example a pencil with the customer's girlfriend name.

In the product page i managed to show in the form product_addtocart_form some fields like this one:

<input type="text" value="" id="gift_name" name="gift_name">

Now I have an observer that when the user does the checkout (checkout_type_onepage_save_order_after) it should get that custom field value but I can't figure out how.

I tried something like Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getParam('gift_name'); but didn't work out.

I think that this parameter is being passed to the form just like the quantity, but how can I retrieve it?

Answer 1

you can use below code to get parameter from url in your observer function

$request    = $observer->getEvent()->getData('front')->getRequest();
    $parameter  = $request->yourparametername;