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EDIT 051012:
Turns out that the issue was less to do with the forms being on one page but more to conflicts between prototype and jQuery; there was a inclusion of jQuery right at the bottom of the footer which was not set to no conflict. I simply added this after the inclusion of that particular jQuery:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
$.noConflict();
//]]>
</script>

I’m accepting Pavel Novitsky’s answer below because he mentioned, “If assuming that you have no form embedding or JavaScript errors your code should work..” and that made me realize that it might have something to do with Javascript.

I’m currently building an e-commerce site with Magento which requires for both the registration and login forms to sit on one page.

I have successfully integrated both forms on a single page but was not able to login or register.

Here’s a very brief overview of how the forms are structured

<!--registration-->
<form action="<?php echo $this->getPostActionUrl() ?>" method="post" id="form-validate">
     <!--// form input fields go here-->
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
     var dataForm = new VarienForm('form-validate', true);
//]]>
</script>

<!--login-->
<form action="<?php echo $this->getPostActionUrl() ?>" method="post" id="login-form">
     <!--// form input fields go here-->
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
     var dataForm = new VarienForm('form-validate', true);
//]]>
</script>

I noticed that the variable dataForm was being defined twice over so I switched one of them to dataForm02 to see if the submissions would go through – neither did. So after almost 6 hours of prodding, I decided to remove the javascript validation and to my surprise, the submission on both forms worked.

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? It is good that I got the submissions on both forms through but this is definitely not ideal because there’d be no form of validations employed on the 2 forms. I’m close to throwing my computer out my 20th storey apartment.

Answer 1

you have one and the same form action for both login and register forms:

<?php echo $this->getPostActionUrl() ?>

This method is defined in different blocks for templates.

If assume that you have no form embedding or JavaScript errors your code should work.Hard to say something without real code.

Just one guess: do you have

//<![CDATA[
var dataForm = new VarienForm('login-form', true);
//]]>

or

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    var dataForm = new VarienForm('login-form', true);
//]]>
</script>

?