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korbbit
#1 Posted : Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:43:08 PM
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so before you redirect the customer to paypal you take their name and shipping details, and save them to a database or whatever,
then you redirect them to paypal so they can pay.

then ipn tells you you have received $x.xx dollars from <whatever name they used on paypal>

is that all you have to go off?
is there no way to tell if they are the same person?
what if you happen to get a few people with the same name?
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#2 Posted : Friday, October 29, 2010 11:53:16 AM
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You can use either the invoice or custom variable to send the user to PayPal. In the form you submit to PayPal, add a new variable named "custom" and populate it with the id value of the person from the database. Then, in your IPN page, request the form variable custom which will have the id from the database passed all the way through the transaction and back to you.

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korbbit
#3 Posted : Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:12:48 AM
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SPRFRKR wrote:
You can use either the invoice or custom variable to send the user to PayPal. In the form you submit to PayPal, add a new variable named "custom" and populate it with the id value of the person from the database. Then, in your IPN page, request the form variable custom which will have the id from the database passed all the way through the transaction and back to you.


Thankyou so much.
i completely understand what you said. i was unaware that by simply adding another hidden input in the submit form for paypal would make paypal save that variable into the transaction.
is there a list somewhere of what form values do what?
i can build my own shopping cart but i dont know how to communicate with paypal..
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