Question

I am trying to create an e-commerce application and now I am at the part where I have to create the account management logic.I am trying to take advantage of the Membership API but I can’t seem to find a way on how to proceed.

My application has two databases is the one containing all the tables for the e-commerce application and the second is the one generated by asp.net for using it with the Membership API.

I do not know how I can retrieve the data the user inputs.

This is what I am planning to do:

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult LogIn()
    {
        if(ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            if(Membership.ValidateUser(username , password))
            {

            }
        }
    }

Can anyone please give me an idea on how I can retrieve the user’s input?

Answer 1

You’re going to need to pass a model in. Let’s say for example I’ve got a view with a form on it and it has the following fields:

<input type="textbox" id="username" name="username"/>
<input type="password" id="password" name="password"/>

Now I’m going to need a model to serialize this into:

public class LoginModel
{
    public string username { get; set; }
    public string password { get; set; }
}

Now I’m going to want to receive that model into the action method:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult LogIn(LoginModel model)

When the POST occurs, ASP.NET MVC will build the model for you out of the input fields inside the form.