Nortel Symposium Web Center Portal, Installation And Administration Manual

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Installation and Administration Guide 571
July 2004 Customizing the Customer Interface
Once you populate all the required fields of the Customer object, you can
populate that object’s data to the Symposium Web Center Portal database. This
is done using the create method in the Customer class, which creates a new
record in the
customer
table in the database:
objCust.create();
If the create method is unsuccessful (an exception is thrown, and this is logged
and reported to the user using the code in errorpage.jsp
),
this method returns
void (nothing). If the create method succeeds, the customer session can proceed
as normal. Therefore, you add the customer’s registration data to the session so
that it can be readily accessed in subsequent pages.
The relevant section of login.jsp reads as follows:
iCmd = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("command"));
Customer objCust = new Customer();
if (iCmd == 2)
{
// new user registering
strUserName = request.getParameter("cust_username");
strPassword = request.getParameter("cust_password");
strCustEmail = request.getParameter("cust_email");
if (objCust.readByEmail(strCustEmail))
{
lngCustID = -1;
failureCode = REASON_EMAIL_EXISTS;
}
else if (objCust.readByUsername(strUserName))
{