How can I complete an Actinic order form using info in a .Net SQL database?

[Paul Cutcliffe]

I’m developing a website for a client, & for one reason or another, most of the site is being developed using .Net (Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition / ASP.Net 2.0 to be more precise), & Actinic will be used to sell a single product.

My problem is that by the time site visitors are able to purchase the product, they will already have registered on the site (using .Net), so I need to fill in the order form for the visitor, using the information stored in the .Net SQL database.

How can I do this? Can anyone help me with this?

Any thoughts gratefully received.

[NormanRouxel]

Not a definitive solution but more an area to investigate.

Actinic uses cookies to hold customer details (Name, Address, etc).

Why not make a normal Actinic purchase and examine the cookie contents once the required details have been entered in the checkout phase.

Then all your own code needs to do is to populate the cookie in a similar manner.

[Paul Cutcliffe]

That's it! Fantastic!

I've had a look, & see that all the contact information is stored by Actinic in the Cookie, & more importantly, is then read back into the order form automatically!

So all I have to do in .Net is write that information to the Cookie on Registration, then when they place an order, the order form will automatically be filled in for them. If I get .Net to write the information on Login too, then it will work on any computer, not just the one they registered on.

Thanks again.