AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Is there any way to change the login for ablecommerce to a pop-up style windows type login? so basically the login page would totally dissapear, and the pop-up would appear. I was thinking about integrating it with ActiveDirectory somehow. Any suggestions?

Well AbleCommerce makes use of membership providers to handle users authentication. You can try to write your custom provider that can authenticate/manage the users using your custom code. Although I don't think so that it would be possible to fully remove the dependency of ac_Users table reason is it has certain constraints with other tables which expects the users information in this table. Perhaps you can try to duplicate your active directory users into AbleCommerce system.

Here is a topic discussing the use of ActiveDirecotry
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/060525.htm

You could set permissions on the install folder on the site to allow active directory users only, not anonymous users. Then the pages should not display until they log in. The would still need to log in to the site to place an order though unless you changed that somehow.

Ok, so lets just say that I went with the database users instead of AD. Makes sense since permissions are based on the database users. Anyway to get rid of the admin login page and just have a popup for username & password?