When I try to create / modify a "Paypal button", I always arrive on a page that:
Looks the same as 10 years ago
Recommends to use "Internet Explorer 7 (!), Firefox 3 or Safari 4" for best results
In this button creation page, I cannot find how to choose the style among the "Custom payment page styles" created in this page: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/customerprofileweb?cmd=_profile-page-styles. What is this page useful for, then, if we cannot use them when creating a button?
Did I miss a new interface somewhere (URL?) for button creation or is this very old interface still up to date?
The button creation page, which you are seeing is valid and it still appears the same.
However, the customization of the checkout page is no longer available through the Custom Payment pages( This feature is deprecated).
You may still add a logo, but that has to be done through coding. You will need to add the variable "image_url" with the value of the logo URL. For Express Checkout payments, you may use LOGOIMG .
For more details, kindly refer to this link: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/admin/checkout-settings/#customizing-paypal-checkout-pages.
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I am currently speccing out a custom auction plugin for WordPress. One thing I would like to do for each item is to generate a dynamic Buy Now link that will redirect to a PayPal screen with the item name and final price.
From what I can see, the only way to generate one of these buttons is to go to the form that generates the buttons for you. Is there a js file that I can use to generate these buttons from a Wordpress admin area? If so, can someone please provide a link so that I can begin reading up on the documentation?
Thank you
There are several examples of how to create a "pay now" button on stackoverflow (with simple HTML form). I would rather not use the "insecure" forms.
For including it in Wordpress you need to create a PHP Script (Plugin) that creates you the button, either with a library or "by hand".
The second thing I would recommend is to give PayPal an URL they should call after a payment status change (IPN). Some libraries (as the one above) can help you with that.
I have problem with my x-cart website. When I click on "Buy Now" button on one product, and after that I click on "My Cart" which is the checkout section, it returns that my cart is empty although I already click to buy product.
Here is my website: http://www.farlin-cambodia.com/home.php?cat=591
How can I fix it?
The store you're referring to is of version 4.1.6, that's an old version where there were no adding to cart without redirect (with ajax). The behaviour in question is still there, thus the feature is added as a custom mode.
If JS is enabled in the browser, and if the store considers that it's enabled, the JS script is supposed to send some data to script minicart_content.php, and the php script is to process the received data further. However it doesn't happen, and there are no JS errors, which makes me believe that the problem is in the code of minicart_content.php, with this file is very likely being modified too.
If JS is disabled in the browser ( and if you click the corresponding button in the store in the pink side menu block - "If Javascript is disabled in your browser click here"), this custom scenario is not applied, so the store uses the default functionality which allows to add the products to cart with out problems.
Thus, the possible solution is:
roll back the custom changes you implemented, and use default functionality (adding products to cart with a redirect to cart page)
or
check the minicart_content.php script and find out, why it doesn't want to properly process the data sent by JS script
If you're not sure how to achieve this, consider contacting X-Cart support team for further investigation. Not sure if I can give a link to X-Cart support here, but I'm sure you'll easily find it, if only try to search=)
Using the Facebook enhanced auth dialog, the dialog itself shows a blue button to confirm the app at the user side. The text of this button could be:
Add to Facebook
Log in with Facebook
Go to App
Play Game
Is there any way to choose the displayed? For example I would like to use Log in with, but I always get Go to App.
Yes, you have to configure your application correctly per the blog article you got that info from ;)
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/03/02/enhanced-auth-dialog-and-updates-to-permissions/
New button text
In the enhanced auth dialog, the button text will be one of four
cases: "Add to Facebook", "Log in with Facebook", “Go to App”, or
"Play Game". Each of these were extensively tested and showed that
more specific calls to action help users better understand the auth
process. As the first point of contact for an app, it’s important for
the auth dialog to exhibit a great user experience.
See our Open Graph documentation to learn more about permissions and
configuring the enhanced auth dialog.
And most importantly a quote from Lu's, the blog author, response to that same question from Sven Gali (oh svengali!):
the four cases are context-sensitive and currently, there is no
control for you to pick a particular button text. We show different
button text in different situations, as we've found that users are
more likely to install your application if the call-to-action text
aligns with their expectations. Thus, the logic currently is something
like*:
if the user has already installed the app and you are requesting additional permissions that includes "publish_actions", we use "Add to
Facebook"
if you're a game app, we use "Play Game"
if your auth dialog is shown in display=popup (e.g. after user clicks a "Log In with Facebook" fb:login button), we use "Log In with
Facebook"
in other situations, we use "Go to App"
*Obligatory Disclaimer: We may adjust the logic tree in the future without notice, as we're constantly testing variations to improve the
user-auth experience. But hopefully this is helpful so you can at
least understand how it is currently functioning under the hood :)
Note that Facebook appear to be adding more variants to this set of 4 now. I've noticed that newspaper apps generally have the text 'Read this article' as the button text.
I have multiple other paypal buy it now buttons created and active on my account.
I have it set up so it has a "success url" and "cancel url" on each.
I am now trying to POST variables back to my website to use for my own purpose.
So I have a Buy it now button on my website that has an event name text field. I am looking for an easy way to use the PDT system so after payment, it will attach some POST variable (like the event name field) so I can use it to populate another form)
The problem that I am having is the PDT requirements say that I need to have auto-return ON, but then all my other buttons that I created are screwed up and return to that other URL and not the "Success URL" that I created in the button??
I know there is a simple solution.. Thanks!!
If you have a "success url" and "cancel url" set up on all buttons, this will override whatever you specify in your Profile.
So you can just enable 'Auto Return' and start using with your new button without any worries, as all existing buttons will still return back to their proper return URL's.
I've made some facebook pages before, but I'm running in to a problem that I haven't had before. Usually, when someone asks me to dev a facebook page for them, it's linked to an account and all I have to do is add the developer app, make a few apps for the links on the side bar, then navigate to the apps I created and click 'add to my page'.
For some reason, this person today gave me their log-in and their account isn't really 'real' so-to-speak. I'm navigated to the page they created upon log-in and there is nothing else loaded, not even a search bar. I was able to add the developer app by navigating to Edit Info (search bar popped up). However I am unable to add any apps to this account. The 'Add to My Page' does not show up on any app pages I navigate to. Is this because the account doesn't really exist? There is a "Create Your Profile" link up near the Settings/Logout buttons.
Am I thinking about this wrong? Is there another way for me to add apps/sidebar tabs with an account like this?
I was thinking of telling the person to register the account fully since "If you create a profile for your business, your account may be disabled for violating our Terms of Use."
Let me know if any of you have any insight.
Thanks!
facebook changes as usual
try my "fix" # http://admine.eu/addapp.html
here is part of the source and actually all you need:
window.open(
"http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=" +
document.getElementById("appid").value +
"&next=" +
document.getElementById("appurl").value,
"PageTab","width=1000,height=300"
)
+document.getElementById("appid") is the id of your app
+document.getElementById("appurl") is the canvas or tab URL of your app
I run into this too. Sometimes as when a client adds me as an admin I have to like the app I made on its profile page then switch to page mode and go to edit the page>apps and it shows up in my list of apps.
If you have already added it once it may already be in that list as well but doesn't show up in the left navigation until you add it as a tab in the app settings while in Page mode.
I find that if there are more than 8 tabs in the navigation already FB won't automatically add it to the left nav.
-Ann
I've put together a javascript snippet that is intended to be used as a bookmarklet. If you use the bookmarklet while on an application's page in the developers section, a new window will automatically open with the add to page-dialog. To use it, just copy the minified code from the repository below and create a new bookmark for "javascript:[the code]" (without the quotation marks).
https://github.com/Wehrzie/Add-Facebook-Application-to-Page-Bookmarklet
Hopefully this will help some until Facebook cleans up their current, quite messy, solution.
Simple to use:
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=APP_ID&next=http://www.facebook.com
More info about what's going on:
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/02/01/how-to--migrate-your-app-profile-page/