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A basic approach is to use two panels on the page - one for the first form and another for the second.

You can change the visibility property of these panels depending on which form you want to display (during page_load or any time before rendering).

Oded 2008-09-18 10:06:26

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You can have multiple forms, it's just only one form may have the runat="server" attribute.

There are a bunch of answers to getting paypal to work; but as it's a learning vehicle that may be cheating. In all honesty I'd look at the full blown paypal API rather than use the somewhat simplistic forms method (with the added advantage that it should stretch your learning more).

Otherwise yes, setup a HTML form outside of the server side form, and add a literal into it and write the bits and pieces in there.

blowdart 2008-09-18 10:07:29

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but can't you simply have 2 divs inside the form, where only one is visible at any time. e.g.

<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
    <div id="getUserInput" visible="true">
          <asp:button id="btnSubmitFirst" />
    </div>
    <div id="doSubmissionToPaypal" visible="false">
          <asp:button id="btnSubmitSecond" />
    </div>
</form>

Then, in btnSubmitFirst_Click:

 doSubmissionToPaypal.visible=True
 getUserInput.visible = false

Something along those lines?

RB 2008-09-18 10:08:03

Answer 4

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The reason that I can't simply use 2 divs in one form is because the Paypal form posts to a different page - it doesn't postback to the same page. I could perhaps change the target in code ('); it's already been considered... but I'm trying to sample opinions in case there is a particular approach that I haven't considered, that is more elegant or easy to use.

Re: full API - yes, I know what you mean, but the project is time-sensitive, so I'm trying to keep it simple this time around. It's not a complex e-commerce site; just need to be able to accept payment for a very limited set of items.

CJM 2008-09-18 10:44:06

Answer 5

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A workaround for this paypal is to use the Paypal Integration Code as Paypal is not always the most friendly to integrate. The hard work is basically done for you.

naspinski 2008-09-18 11:03:05

I'll have a look at this, but since this is a learning exercise, I'd like to do it 'manually' if possible.

CJM 2008-09-18 15:04:14

Answer 6

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I have another question.

I work with a CMS which requires that there is a form tag surround the whole page.

<body>
<form runat="server" id="CMSForm">

<p>PAGE CONTENT</p>

</form>
</body>

I would like to be able to do this

<body>
<form runat="server" id="CMSForm">

<p>PAGE CONTENT</p>
<form action="http://www.domain.com" method="post">
 FORM STUFF
</form>

</form>
</body>

Is this possible?

2009-02-15 15:17:02

I'm not 100% certain, but I don't think it will like a form-within-a-form. But I expect you could programmatically change the action of the CMS form to achieve what you want.

CJM 2009-02-16 14:41:06

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