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Originally posted by paypal_pb[br]I'm don't really understand the question but IPN is a reliable way to receive real-time notification of a PayPal payment.
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Patrick, I am trying to use the standard secure forms for subscriptions from my website. I had troubles earlier because PayPal was returning values in different variable names than I was expecting from the documentation. Once I used the var_dump function in PHP to print *all* the POST_VARS I saw the variable names and the values. I was able to get the forms working fine before Christmas. I put the project away for two days and came back the day after Christmas to find that PayPal is no longer returning any variables. The code in the project was unchanged during the break.
I have to have some reliable means of getting accurate information back from PayPal. I cannot rely on something this unpredictable. If the IPN method is more reliable returning the documented values each time, then I will rewrite my project to use the IPN. Otherwise, I am going to have to stick with my current credit card processor. I can't believe that this problem is on the PayPal side or someone would have screamed by now. I am obviously sending something that PayPal is interpreting in an unintended manner.
I just feel that the form should return what is documented each time the same way, but I cannot take chances with my client.
Alan Parker
aparker@datalinkprofessionals.comhttp://dlphost.com