Using Postcode Anywhere in new onepagecheckout

Hi John,

HI,
      i got help from PostcodeAnywhere on this, so I thought I would post the solution to this, so anyone else searching can also use this in the UK

This is for V4 of productcart.Yuu also need an account with postcodeanywhere.

1. Log into your postcode anywhere account at www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk
2. click on Setup account from the menu on the left
3. Choose the option - I want my customers to be able to quickly fill in their addresses on my web site
4. Next choose the option 'Website client (recommended)' . You are now creating the key that postcode anywhere uses. You need to name your key so you know which button it relates to for future reference.A good name might be 'domain name - billing address" for example
4. Choose the option to have 2 lines in the address, and a separate company box, since this is what productcart uses.
5. The next page will generate a line of javascript for you automatically. Copy this code
6. Now paste this code after the following line of code in onepagecheckout.asp

<td><input type="text" name="billzip" id="billzip" value="<%=pcStrBillingPostalCode%>" /><PLACE JAVASCRIPT WEB CLIENT CODE HERE>

This will create a setup button on your webpage next to the postcode box.

You then need to upload your modified onepagecheckout.asp to your pc folder, and then view the page on your website. You will then see a button that says 'set up postcode anywhere'.

You need to click on this and follow the instructions. Here you will basically map the string variables from the productcart asp page to the relevant name in postcode anywhere. These are quite easy to do

ie billzip is obviously billing postcode id, so you would match this to 'postcode' on postcode anywhere.
    billcity is obviously the billing City, so you would match this to the 'City' on postcode anywhere

PLease note: The list will show ALL the variable strings that are on the onepagecheckout.asp form in thelist. You only need to choose the ones that are relevant to the form you are wanting to populate, which is the billing address. If you want to do this for the shipping/delivery address see below for how to do this

Once youve done this for all the relevant boxes on the productcart form click finish, refresh the page, and the button should now work.


If you need to do this for the shipping address lookup, you need to repeat the steps above, as you need a new key for each button. You then get a new piece of javascript that you insert after the following line of code in onepagecheckout.asp

<td><input type="text" name="shipzip" id="shipzip" /><PLACE JAVASCRIPT WEB CLIENT CODE HERE>


A note to get this working in IE.

To get the button to display correctly in Internet Explorer you will need to change the JavaScript as follows:

Replace:

http://services.postcodeanywhere

With:

https://services.postcodeanywhere

This will get around the security certificate which is blocking the button from displaying; this is a known issue within Internet Explorer.


Hope this helps with anyone trying to set this up. Any issues, then email the postcode anywhere team. They are very helpfull

Thanks

John