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Auto-populate checkout page fields

Thread began 8/20/2011 4:43 am by rob.parkin390637 | Last modified 8/23/2011 9:33 am by Jason Byrnes | 1746 views | 7 replies |

rob.parkin390637

Auto-populate checkout page fields

Hi, I'm having problems automatically populating form fields on my checkout page. I've followed the guide, creating the rsUser recordset and binding the form fields to this - and when I test the bindings (via the TEST button) it seems ok. However, when I login (as a user) and access the checkout page the form fields are not being populated from the User dataset record - they just remain blank.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Most likely, the session created at login time is not the same one you are using to filter the recordset by.

to double check this add the following code just before the body tag on the checkout page:
[php<pre><?php var_dump($_SESSION); ?></pre>[/php]

post back the results of this and a screen shoot showing how you have set up the recordset.

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rob.parkin390637

Hi Jason

I couldn't get your code just before the <body> because of the Dreamweaver template (editable regions) so I placed it at the end of the <head> tag and the results were:


[php<pre>array(6) {
["eCart1_Items"]=>
string(255) "7|WAECART|Florence Dark Grey Wall Tile|WAECART|Florence wall tile, dark grey, 40x25, sq mtr|WAECART|florence001_s.jpg|WAECART|5|WAECART|1|WAECART|0.05|WAECART|1|WAECART|5|WAECART|0.05|WAECART|1 Florence Dark Grey Wall Tile (7)|WAECART|0.0475|WAECART|0.045"
["WAEC_ContinueRedirect"]=>
string(29) "/tiles/bathrooms/ceramic2.php"
["WAENCRYPTEDRETURNUSED"]=>
bool(false)
["WAENCRYPTEDRETURNSUCCESS"]=>
bool(false)
["SecurityAssist_UserID"]=>
string(1) "5"
["userLevel"]=>
string(1) "3"
}
</pre>[/php]


I have attached screen shots of how I set up and tested the recordset -

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Ok, So from this i can seer that the name of the session created by the login page is "SecurityAssist_UserID"

in the recordset, you have set to use the Session "UserID" instead, change that to use the session named "SecurityAssist_UserID"

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rob.parkin390637

Thanks Jason - that worked.

The notes say to enter "UserID" in the dialogue box text field for Session Variable ... so that's what most inexperienced folk (like myself) and probably a good number of more experienced developers are going to do!
Perhaps the notes should be changed at some point to say "Enter the Session Variable you used to create your logon page."
And / Or perhaps the dialogue box could be altered in a future version so that the Session Variable field is changed from a text box to a drop-down selection box displaying all of the session variables available ?

Thanks again for your help!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

In part 1 step 9, it says:

  Select the UserID option.
Depending on the Session Variable used with SecurityAssist, this may be named differently.  




then in Part 2 step 12it says:

  Enter UserID in the text field.
In this example, UserID is the name of the Session Variable used by SecurityAssist.  




The example is using UserID as the session name, if your application uses a different session name, you will need to substitute that name.

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rob.parkin390637

Hi Jason,

I think we must be reading from different hymn sheets! I'm using the pdf file:

ecart_populate_checkout_fields.pdf

which was linked-to from the bottom of the guide at:

registration_on_checkout.php.

and which, for step 9, makes no mention of the possibility of the session variable being named differently - hence my suggested changes. Perhaps I'm using an out-dated guide; which one are you quoting from ?

cheers

rob

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Sorry, yes, i was looking at the Order History tutorial, I will forward your comments to our documentation team.

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