I am new to paypal.. I am trying to implement a simple button that takes my client to paypal - allows him to pay, and then sends him back to my site to either success or failure callback pages. I also need to pass an identifier in order to use get it back and use it in the callbacks.
I created a button using their UI, and got this:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="$$$$">
<input type="hidden" name="postId" value="666">
<input type="image" src="btn_paynowCC_LG.gif"
border="0" name="submit">
</form>
I tried adding: return and cancel_return vars. I didn't want to make a purchase yet, but even cancel didn't work. I had to set the urls using their UI. But then I could not get the identifier on cancel.
Can anybody help me? I thought it will be much much much simpler than this.
You need to add return and return_cancel var during button creation process.
It is in the step 3, advanced variables.
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I have created a hosted PayPal button for monthly subscription and included its code on my website.
The subscription offers a free trial period of 1 week.
I would like to check if the user has already used their trial and is trying to subscribe again. And if so, how do I let PayPal know that it should not allow a trial period for that user?
The button's code looks something like this:
<form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="ABCDEFGHIJKLM">
<input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Your email">
<label for="plan-email">Your email</label>
<input id="plan-email" type="email" name="os0" placeholder="joanne.doe#gmail.com" required maxlength="200">
<button type="submit">Subscribe</button>
</form>
It would be even better, if you know a way to use Subscription Plan (created in https://www.paypal.com/billing/plans) as an HTML form similar to the one above (pure HTML form, without using PayPal JavaScript SDK) instead of a Button (created in https://www.paypal.com/buttons/). I need to pass an extra option (user's email) to PayPal as well as whether to allow a trial period or not.
Okay, so we have a member site using Joomla, and a component that allows users to perform certain tasks (creating teams). They are allowed to login, and create a team, but they can't add members to this team until they pay a $25.00 fee.
This happens through Paypal IPN. There is essentially this form below... (some personal data removed).
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="<?php echo $item_name;?>">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="blah#blah.com">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="25">
<input type="hidden" name="quantity" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<!--<input name="userId" value="<?php //echo $user->id;?>" type="hidden">-->
<!--<input name="task" value="paypal_register" type="hidden">-->
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<!-- Enable override of buyers's address stored with PayPal . -->
<!-- Set variables that override the address stored with PayPal. -->
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="<?php echo JURI::ROOT().'index.php?option=com_fastball&view=payment&task=paypal_register';?>">
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="<?php echo JURI::ROOT().'index.php?option=com_fastball&view=payment&task=paypal_register&userId='.$user->id.'&ipn=1';?>">
<!--<input type="image" name="submit" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online">-->
</form>
Now sometimes the IPN redirects and works just fine. But other times it cuts the url short from "index.php?option=com_fastball&view=payment&task=paypal_register&userId=" to "index.php?option=com_fastball", therefore not activating the view in Joomla that contains the code to update the database on notification.
It seems fairly random. There are several scenarios, 1 - New User Creating New Team. 2 - Old User Creating New Team. 3- Old User Renewing Old Team.
But regardless of that, they ALL hit this payment form button with THESE notify URL as hidden input.
So I'm not sure where paypal is either A.) Getting the shortened URL, or B.) They are cutting it short for some reason. It returns to the shortened URL with all of the Paypal Post info showing in the URL Parameters (&st=Completed&amt=25.00 etc from paypals servers)
This has been extremely frustrating and I may not have explained it well so if you have any questions or thoughts, just let me know. Thanks!
For URL paths you should use JURI::base() not JURI::ROOT. You can check the documentation here https://docs.joomla.org/Constants.
This appears to be a recent PayPal problem. All the urls (return, cancel_return, and notify_url) PayPal is stripping the url of all content after the first '&'.
Note also that the issue appears to be intermittent; it may be dependent on the PayPal server you connect to (QueryString values removed from the IPN endpoint by PayPal).
I have made some modifications to my own PayPal form replacing just the '&' with '&' (the encoded version) and that seems to work.
I have a paypal account but are completely new of how to set up a paypal solution on my website. I develop on my computer so the website is not up on the internet yet.
I will sell digital goods which are textfiles and ebooks.
I try to use the wizard: https://devtools-paypal.com/integrationwizard
So in step 2, this creates a button which I placed on my website including putting "paypalfunctions.php", "orderconfirm.php", "checkout.php", "cancel.php" in the rootdirectory of the website.
In the .php file, I have changed those to the ones in the sandbox:
$API_UserName="xxxxxx_api1.hotmail.com";
$API_Password="xxxxxxpassword";
$API_Signature="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxp.yxxxxxxxxx";
I have created a sandbox account here: https://developer.paypal.com/developer/applications
When I click the paypal button on my website. It opens up a small window which has the same content as my actual page on the website where I clicked the paypal button. I don't understand what is happening here.
Shouldn't paypal payment processing be opened in that window?
I don't know what I am missing to start to set this up correctly?
I don't really know where to begin?
Thank you
Stop trying to make it so difficult. Use my example below, it is extremely simple. This will give you an idea on how things work. Go from there.
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="ITERMNAME HERE">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="PAYPAL-EMAIL-ACCOUNT-HERE">
<input type="hidden" name="cn" value="CUSTOM FIELD HERE IF YOU WISH">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-BuyNowBF:btn_buynow_LG.gif:NonHosted">
<input type="submit" name="submit">SUBMIT</input>
If your file that contains the button does not reside in the same directory as the php files you setup your form will fail and probably render whatever your server used as a default.
<form action='expresscheckout.php' METHOD='POST'>
In this case it expects expresscheckout.php to reside in the same folder. You may need to adjust this, such as /expresscheckout.php or similar.
I have been trying to make a working ipn for my website. Here's the code:
Have tested this through real PayPal.
My Button:
<form method="post" name="paypalConfirm" action="http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"/>
<input type="hidden" name="custom" value="username">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="email"/>
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Item"/>
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="0.02"/>
<input type="image" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online.">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
I have tested these several times but it just won't work. If anybody could help me, please do.
You need to make sure you have IPN configured in the PayPal account that is receiving the payment.
If you do have it configured and you don't think you're getting an IPN check the IPN History in your PayPal account. This will show you whether or not anything is getting sent and what response your server is sending back. It's possible the IPN's are getting sent but your script is simply failing.
You'll need to check your web server logs to see what the error is if that's the case, or what I like to do is setup a basic HTML form with the action set to my IPN URL. I include hidden fields that match what I expect to get from an IPN, and then I load this in a browser and submit it. This allows me to see the result on screen which helps with debugging. Once it's all working there you know it'll work when PayPal sends it.
Keep in mind if testing that way the IPN will not verify with PayPal since the data didn't come from them, so you'll need to make sure your code logic handles that accordingly.
I am using the following code to generate a "Buy Now" button for selling a single item.
It takes me to PayPal using the sandbox and does the payment but after I return nothing is received in the response (there is no extra parameter in the URL I get).
<form name="_xclick" action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="steve.johntestemail#gmail.com">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Book_1">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="0.09">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="button_subtype" value="services">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.thequeenoflean.com.au">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-BuyNowBF:btn_buynowCC_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
</form>
Will I get the data in get or post?
Actually I want to retrieve the email of the buyer and some other information as well.
Can anyone guide me what my mistake is here?
Thanks in advance.
i tried sandbox, live Paypal payment scenario but it was not working,
i tried so many tutorials but the steps mentioned in those tutorials were not working,
finally i got the reason:
i was trying to use Paypal from asian country where it is not supported and works abnormally,and that's why i was not getting response in return. if you use any other VPN with for example(american, Australian etc.. ips where it is supported) it will work fine and return you response accurately.
Thanks,
I know a reason why you're not getting any information.
take a look here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11404356/279147
you see I have a notify_url parameter in my form, this is a url which will be called by paypal when the payment has been completed, whether it succeeds or fails.
the url is not opened by the browser, popups, etc, it's a "back channel" call to your server to just send data, there is no interaction with the client, so don't put any html, or return anything, it's just a "dead drop" url to dump data, if you put something like
<?php trigger_error(print_r($_POST,true)); ?>
in your code, your error log might show up some information, so then you know you are receiving information,
you're missing that, so you never get any information, unless the user clicks on the return to website button and in my experience that never happens. they just close the browser.
so take a look at my url, add the parameter and then try to do it again.