Paypal : Invalid IPN response received even recurring payments successfully created - paypal

Question

My paypalipn.php file looks like,
<?php
$raw_post_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$raw_post_array = explode('&', $raw_post_data);
$myPost = array();
foreach ($raw_post_array as $keyval) {
$keyval = explode ('=', $keyval);
if (count($keyval) == 2)
$myPost[$keyval[0]] = urldecode($keyval[1]);
}
// read the post from PayPal system and add 'cmd'
$req = 'cmd=_notify-validate';
if(function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc')) {
$get_magic_quotes_exists = true;
}
foreach ($myPost as $key => $value) {
if($get_magic_quotes_exists == true && get_magic_quotes_gpc() == 1) {
$value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
} else {
$value = urlencode($value);
}
$req .= "&$key=$value";
}
// STEP 2: Post IPN data back to paypal to validate
$ch = curl_init('https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $req);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Connection: Close'));
if( !($res = curl_exec($ch)) ) {
// error_log("Got " . curl_error($ch) . " when processing IPN data");
curl_close($ch);
exit;
}
curl_close($ch);
// STEP 3: Inspect IPN validation result and act accordingly
if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) {
// assign posted variables to local variables
$item_name = $_POST['item_name'];
$item_number = $_POST['item_number'];
$payment_status = $_POST['payment_status'];
$payment_amount = $_POST['mc_gross'];
$payment_currency = $_POST['mc_currency'];
$txn_id = $_POST['txn_id'];
$receiver_email = $_POST['receiver_email'];
$payer_email = $_POST['payer_email'];
} else if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) {
}
?>
I have implemented the Paypal into my application. where I can successfully got the profile Id for recurring payments but The response I got from Instant payment Notification was invalid. only that reason was I got ,and also I dont get any more error messages regarding that. so I was looking for your help to get this....

Answer 1

Are you using the Sandbox? The live site won't verify IPNs from the Sandbox, and vice-versa. If the IPN came from the Sandbox, you need to send it back to the Sandbox to verify it.
Try changing this code:
$ch = curl_init('https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');
To this:
if($myPost['test_ipn'] == "1") {
$ch = curl_init('https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');
} else {
$ch = curl_init('https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr');
}