I wanted to use Paypal's IPN service to verify payments for a recurring subscription charge for my website. How do you tie the IPN confirmations to a user in your site? The IPN confirmation message has a name, email, paypal ID, recurring payment ID, but it seems to not give a unique identifier since I don't know where the paypal ID or ...
To start: I am a C++ developer who is roped into making a PHP script (for paypal IPN). I have been incredibly frustrated witht he lack of good working samples from paypal and elsewhere. The latest problem is that I seem to not get any of the $HTTP_POST_VARS items that I think I should be getting. Some searches online seem to indicat...
I would like to have a text input form with a submit button that goes to paypal, upon payment the contents of the form should go in a mysql database.. This sounds trivial, but I'm having such a hard time with paypal's IPN. Can anyone point in me in the right direction? Thanks! ...
Hello, I am using Django-PayPal plugin (http://github.com/johnboxall/django-paypal/tree/master), which works almost fine with one problem. I followed integration process and think that everything is the same as in the guide. But there is the problem, that I always get the INVALID response flag. I will not be able to determine the sucess...
I am adding subscriptions to a site using Paypal IPN which works very well, I can successfully create a new subscription and verify it. The subscription has a two week free trial. The guide was unfortunately a little vague on subscription statuses. At the moment, the users account gets subscribed status once subscr_signup or subscr_paym...
Hello, In my website I've integrated a php script that receive an IPN notification and send a license key to the customer! This script is in a folder with other 2 php files required by the php script ... how can i protect this folder? If I place in it an .htaccess with: order allow,deny deny from all I block the paypal notifications ...
I am trying to test a servlet I wrote that processes a payapal IPN notification (my servlet is very similar to this example) - thing is even after enabling all the settings in the test account I am using the IPN notification is not firing at all. I then found out that apparently in the sandbox the only way to test IPN is through the IPN...
I need to determine when a user's paypal subscription is set to end/renew. I know that the easiest way to do this would be to extrapolate it from the time when the initial subscr_signup gets sent through, based on the subscription interval value, but because I'm working with some 3rd party software, it's not possible (or at least, not i...
I've reading the Google Checkout docs but I haven't found anything similar to PayPal IPN for Google Checkout. Can anyone point me in the right direction to automatically process orders using Google Checkout? ...
I've created an e-commerce site that uses paypal to accept payment. I am in the testing phase so I have password protected the entire site using htaccess. The trouble is that I am using IPN to verify PayPal payments and therefor my IPN script needs to be publicly accessible so that PayPal can communicate with it. Is there a way to pas...
Hi I am trying to do PayPal IPN method. So I thought since I am doing asp.net mvc I can just make a method view in my controller like this public void IPN() { // IPN code } So I tried this all on local host made my own form to post some IPN variable stuff and it worked fine. I uploaded it to my server and used the IPN simulator fro...
I am using the Paypal standard to integrate to my website, using HTML form fields. I have enabled IPN notifications on my (sandbox) account, and the Paypal server is able to successfully call my website, with IPN data. I want to be able to respond to the following specific events in my backend processing (i.e. using custom server side ...
I've tried adding the "tax" field, however nothing tax related shows up in my checkout. How do I add the tax amount to my checkout for Paypal? ...
Is it possible and if so how to do an IPN transaction within a facebook application? I found you can not launch an IPN transaction within an iframe. I will be using facebook's iframe option for my application, so I need to figure out a way for the users to pay. I guess it would be possible to launch a pop up with the transaction in the...
I've looked through the documentation, I've tried downloading various example code, and I've tried hacking various permutations. After a full day's worth of work, I'm spent, and throwing in the towel. So now I'm begging for some help. Can someone please post a PHP class or function, wherein I can simply verify that the ping to my IPN sc...
I'm really frustrated trying to use a PayPal IPN and receiving variables back to use in my VB.NET application. It looks like my transactions are going through when I test it, but I can't get the variable values. My rm parameter is the default ("0") and I have Paypal set to auto return because that is the behavior I want. I'm using the...
I am using sandbox mode. I click buy item on my shop, and after i pay with sanndbox account it takes me to "Thank you for your payment - Paypal" but doesn't redirect back to my site! I already have IPN setup! I dont understand, do I need to contact paypal first ? or is there some section on paypal where you can enter your shopping sit...
I was looking at some source code, specifically for Paypal IPN, and I noticed the author sets two variables in this format: $config['business'] and $config['different_text'] Is there a special reason other than the obvious organization for declaring my variables this way or is this Paypal settings? ...
Hey guys! I wrote an automated donations system for someone, so that people who play on his game servers can enter their information, donate, and automatically be added to a database. Its working great, but im not very php saavy, so I am hoping you guys can take a look and tell me what else I should add. I need to remove them when the s...
Hi, I have written a simple paypal subscription system, where a user can enter their information, click the button, and start a subscription. Im wondering how I can find out when the user cancels the subscription though? I have seen $txn_type subscr_cancel but I have no idea how to use that, since paypal doesn't call my handler again. ...