Re: FN-FORUM: .Net Form Posting - Vaguely OT

date posted 25th February 2008 17:18

Phillip Healey wrote:
>> Can you put the paypal buttons outside the main form? Do they need to be
>> alongside other input controls or could you keep the main form small to
>> store the viewstate and whatever other transient data and then put the
>> buttons outside of that?
>>
>
> Not really. Im storing the cart items as cookies then retrieving them as a
> page displaying the cart contents. Then adding information such as delivery
> details. So this all need verification when the submit button is clicked.
>
> If this delivery info passes verification, i want to submit the contents of
> the cart (cookies) as a form to Paypal, using a form which allows you to add
> multiple items and display them as a full cart inventory on the paypal
> invoicing page.
>
> Thus there is a cross-over between my code and the Paypal code / forms.
>
> So it would seem i need to programmatically add the Paypal form.
> Somehow!????????
>
>
This is *not* intended to start another .NET vs PHP thing - but it does
go some way to displaying why I really don't want to work with .NET if
possible.

As Phil says, this is something that should be easy and yet (it seems to
be) that it's being made exponentially harder *by* .NET. Or am I
missing the point here? The entire thing of making the entire page a
form, and not being able to handle multiple forms seems (again, to me)
to be just a massive clusterf**k.

I think I'll stick with PHP for a while yet. :-)