Ablecommerce API to validate Members on the fly

[mazhar]

Locate the following lines of code in SaveUser() method in EditUser.aspx page.

Code: Select all

_User.Save();
//UPDATE PASSWORD

and make them look like as below

Code: Select all

_User.Settings.SetValueByKey("FmaMemberId",memberID.Text);
_User.Save();
//UPDATE PASSWORD

[FmaAlbee]

Mazhar:

Thank you soooo much for your patience!

[mazhar]

You are welcome

[FmaAlbee]

I am adding the memberID.text to the MyCredentialsPage.ascx and I am trying to edit the code in the MyCredentialsPage.ascx.cs.

I notice that in the MyCredentialsPage.ascx.cs there is no protected void InitializeForm() in which to place the

Code: Select all

protected void InitializeForm()
        
    {
        //CALLS IN MEMBERID FIELD
        string FmaMemberId = _User.Settings.GetValueByKey("FmaMemberId");
        memberID.Text = FmaMemberId;

I tried putting it in the page load event to no avail. I also tried adding the call to the InitializeForm() and that wasn't correct either.

[mazhar]

Locate the following code in the Page_Load method

Code: Select all

if (!isAnonymous)
            {
                UserName.Text = userName;
                NewAccountText.Visible = false;
                UpdateAccountText.Visible = true;
            }

and make it look like

Code: Select all

if (!isAnonymous)
            {
                UserName.Text = userName;
                NewAccountText.Visible = false;
                UpdateAccountText.Visible = true;
                string FmaMemberId = user.Settings.GetValueByKey("FmaMemberId");
                memberID.Text = FmaMemberId;
            }

Also when checking the crediantials make sure that current user have some memberid other wise the textbox will be empty.

[FmaAlbee]

Perfect!

I am also adding the update for memberID on the MyCredentialsPage.ascx.cs. However, I am getting this error:

[[ConLib:MyCredentialsPage]] e:\hshome\fmastore\fmastore.org\ConLib\MyCredentialsPage.ascx.cs(122): error CS0103: The name '_User' does not exist in the current context

My code is:

Code: Select all

   _User.Settings.SetValueByKey("FmaMemberId", memberID.Text);
                _User.Save();
                //UPDATE THE USERNAME

[mazhar]

_User object doesn't exist in this control. Here it is called the user so you should have the code as

Code: Select all

user.Settings.SetValueByKey("FmaMemberId", memberID.Text);
                user.Save();

[FmaAlbee]

Strange, it doesn't throw an error. But it isn't saving right either. If I go out of the page and come back in after save, the information did not save...

Code: Select all

//UPDATE MEMBERID
                user.Settings.SetValueByKey("FmaMemberId", memberID.Text);
                user.Save();
                //UPDATE THE USERNAME

[mazhar]

Well it will not work in SaveButton_Click() method because when some user only want to update his/her member id in that case validation will not allow the operation. A quick work around to this problem is to have an other button for the member id field so that user can update it separately. For this first modify the ascx file and change your text box code to exactly look like as below

Code: Select all

<asp:TextBox ID="memberId" runat="server" ValidationGroup="MemberId"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="UpdateMemberId" runat="server" Text="Update Member Id" ValidationGroup="MemberId" OnClick="UpdateMemberId_Click" />

and then add the following method to your controls cs file

Code: Select all

protected void UpdateMemberId_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        User user = Token.Instance.User;
        bool isAnonymous = user.UserName.StartsWith("zz_anonymous_");
        if (!isAnonymous)
        {            
            user.Settings.SetValueByKey("FmaMemberId", memberId.Text);
            user.Save();
        }
    }

This change will make available another button on the page which will only change the member id field.

[FmaAlbee]

Ah ok. I will do that. Thank you!

[FmaAlbee]

I keep getting this error:

[[ConLib:MyCredentialsPage]] e:\hshome\fmastore\fmastore.org\ConLib\MyCredentialsPage.ascx.cs(32): error CS0103: The name 'memberID' does not exist in the current context

Ah, I figured it out before I posted this text, Forgot that most programming languages are case sensitive, unlike ColdFusion which I have been using for a year. The code had memberId, not memberID..

[mazhar]

Just change memberID to memberId. Its because we have changed the textbox name from memberID to memberId, so all old references on the page should be updated.

[FmaAlbee]

I am trying now to add the code to the LoginDialog.ascx.cs to validate if a memberID is valid by using this code:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.fmanet.org/JobBoard/Job-Board-Login.cfm?ID=" + FmaMemberId);
using (Stream stream = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
{
string response = reader.ReadToEnd();
return response;// This string contains the HTML or text returned by your URL
}
}

But I cannot call in the FmaMemberId correctly.

[mazhar]

If user is logged then you can get his/her member id by using the Token as discussed before.

[FmaAlbee]

This is not quiet right. Somehow I need to see the fmamemberID, and the response returned from the Job-Board-Login.cfm page and then add it to the member group 'validmember'

//LOGIN SUCCEEDED, MIGRATE USER IF NEEDED
int newUserId = loginUser.UserId;
int oldUserId = Token.Instance.UserId;
if ((oldUserId != newUserId) && (newUserId != 0))
{
User.Migrate(Token.Instance.User, UserDataSource.Load(newUserId));
Token.Instance.UserId = newUserId;
UserSetting userSetting = new UserSetting();
userSetting.FieldName = "FmaMemberId";
userSetting.FieldValue = "FmaMemberId";
newUser.Settings.Add(userSetting);
newUser.Save();

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.fmanet.org/JobBoard/Job-Board-Login.cfm?ID=" + FmaMemberId);
using (Stream stream = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
{
string response = reader.ReadToEnd();
return response;// This string contains the HTML or text returned by your URL
}
}

}

UserGroup ugly = new UserGroup(userID, Validmember)
if (validMember)
{
ugly.Save();
}
else
{
ugly.Delete();
}

[FmaAlbee]

Finally got the finished code working.

For anyone who is trying to do this, on the login page the below code was added to validate a memberID and then add the user to a discount group.

//HANDLE LOGIN PROCESSING
if (trRememberMe.Visible && RememberUserName.Checked)
{
HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("UserName", UserName.Text);
cookie.Expires = DateTime.MaxValue;
Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
}
else
{
Response.Cookies.Add(new HttpCookie("UserName", ""));
}
// BEGIN MEMBER VALIDATION CODE
string FmaMemberId = loginUser.Settings.GetValueByKey("FmaMemberId");
System.Net.HttpWebRequest request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.fmanet.org/JobBoard/Job-Board-Login.cfm?ID=" + FmaMemberId);
using (System.IO.Stream stream = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
{
using (System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(stream))
{
string response = reader.ReadToEnd();
if (response.Trim().Equals("YES"))
{
UserGroup validMember = new UserGroup(Token.Instance.UserId, 10);
validMember.Save();
}
else
{
UserGroup validMember = new UserGroup(Token.Instance.UserId, 10);
validMember.Delete();
}
}
}
// END

[mazhar]

That's great Thanks for sharing the information.

[nickc]

My 2¢:
Noticed that your UserGroup id was hard coded - if you moved that to an appSetting string of comma separated values, your app would be more easily managed, with more granualar control over discounts; something like ...

<appSettings>
<add key="MemberDiscount:MemberGroupIds" value="10,31,198" />
</appSettings>

and then...

foreach (groupId in ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MemberDiscount:MemberGroupIds"].Split(new char[] {','}))
{
UserGroup validMember = new UserGroup(Token.Instance.UserId, Convert.ToInt32(groupId));
validMember.Save();
}

Thanks for the contribution.

[FmaAlbee]

Thanks nickc,

I will implement and test your suggestion.

[mfreeze]

Did you ever figure out how to update the user setting in the edituser.aspx.cs file? I am struggling with this also.

[mazhar]

Mary have a look at following thread it may be helpful
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=7228