PayPal Instant Payment Notification

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PayPal Instant Payment Notification

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EezyPeezy

11:22 am on Apr 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

Pity PayPal does not offer a "test mode" for new users to their Instant Payment Notification :-(

Does anyone have an ASP "notification" page from a working system that they are prepared to share the code to ??

TIA

Alan

lazerzubb

11:26 am on Apr 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

Do you just want to get an email when someone have transered money to your account?

EezyPeezy

11:32 am on Apr 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

Lazerzubb

No .. I need to do the full "handshaking" so that I can populate a backend database on my server for completed transactions.

Alan

EliteWeb

4:45 pm on Apr 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

Did you try their sample scripts and print out their 30 page PDF file?

sun818

11:55 pm on Apr 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

Paypal Developer Network
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Do you want the Paypal server to post to your ASP page or do you want to parse the outgoing e-mail that goes into a designated inbox?

EezyPeezy

9:30 am on Apr 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

Yes .. I have all their PDF documents. I also have their sample script. I am also a member of the PDN and have read the appropriate documents I could find there.

I have also found numerous instances of problems posted in several places on the web of people having problems with the sample script.

Not being to clever with ASP .. and not wanting to put an untested payment script directly into production on my server .. I was just wondering if somebody had a working page (complete with error handling) that they would be willing to share :-)

I would prefer to have their server interact with mine rather than parsing email messages.

Tia

sun818

12:42 am on Apr 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

Look in your Profile under "instant payment nofication". There is sample script code for major languages.

spaceclown

8:08 pm on May 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

I am trying to intergrate w/paypal also. Has anyone used paypal and received stored data back and stored it in a database?

I have a classifieds that users post for a fee. So here's the inteded flow.

User inputs data and it stores in the database with a table called paid defaulting to value of zero. Then they pay via paypal. Paypal sends me some databack and the table value is turned to 1. All inputs in the table with the value of 1 are displayed (SQL statemnt). Thats the plan but will it work?