Pre-populate forms with logged in customer data

[graphicz]

In v11 when a customer is logged in and makes a purchase his/her details are automatically completed in the checkout form (pre-populated).

If we want to make additional forms using formmail, phpmail, ez-script etc, how can we make these forms pre-populate when the customer is logged in?

All ideas gratefully received

Also: can other forms be used to create acounts using the ids names values and tabindexex from the checkout form?

[Mike Hughes]

I don't know how Actinic is doing it in V11 but the address will either be stored in a cookie as per the 'remember me' feature or stored in a file on the web server. A quick test on a PC you haven't used before should let you work out which one it is.

If it's a cookie, then all you have to do is read the cookie and use the data. The code to return this might already be in the Actinic javascript.

If it's a file on the web server then it's going to be encrypted and the chances are you'll need to modify and use the perl scripts to get access to the details.

Mike

[AndyBorrett]

This is something I started to look at when we switched to using Mail Chimp for our mailing list. It would be great if we could get a subscribe to newsletter box being checked at the checkout to populate the mail chimp form.