[ic] auto create user on checkout

[Kevin Walsh]

"Ron Phipps" <rphipps at reliant-solutions.com> wrote:
> We've got a site setup to allow a user to checkout without creating an
> account.  If they check out this way, log_transaction adds the user to the
> userdb and we have verified that, that part works.  The etc/report,
> etc/mail_receipt and etc/receipt show the correct values for the Value
> space.  However $Values->{fname} and [value fname] are both empty after this
> line in log_transaction:
> 
> [userdb
> 	function=new_account
> 	assign_username=1
> 	password='[value zip]'
> 	verify='[value zip]'
> ]
> 
> Since these values are empty they (fname, lname, etc) are not saved to
> userdb or transactions.
> 
> Any ideas what could cause [value fname] to be populated before this line,
> empty after this line, and show up properly in the report and receipt files?
> 
I haven't come across this, but the solution might be to add no_login=1
to the [userdb] parameters.  This, in theory, should prevent the tag
from logging the user into his new account and reading his (blank)
userdb row.

I haven't tried it, by the way - I'm just reading the source.

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