someone else told me that in order to use custom variables on my paypal buttons i needed to set up IPN, and that the variable would become apart of the button's URL... but i'm trying to avoid setting up IPN simply because it's seems like overkill and complicated for my tired mind... so essentially my button's only have address like this with a hosted_button_id:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=1234567 i see in apart of the aquatic prime script that it uses the user data: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- // parse the data $lines = explode("\n", $res); $keyarray = array(); if (strcmp ($lines[0], "FAIL") == 0) { // Put in a URL here to redirect back on error header("Location: $error_url"); die; } for ($i = 1; $i < count($lines); $i++) { list($lineKey, $lineValue) = explode("=", $lines[$i]); $keyarray[urldecode($lineKey)] = urldecode($lineValue); } $product = $keyarray['item_name']; $name = $keyarray['first_name']." ".$keyarray['last_name']; $email = $keyarray['payer_email']; $amount = $keyarray['mc_gross']; $count = $keyarray['quantity']; // RFC 2822 formatted date $timestamp = date("r", strtotime($keyarray['payment_date'])); $transactionID = $keyarray['txn_id']; -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- so i tried just calling $appLicense = $_GET['item_name'] and used the name of the item (like "Software License") as the variable like this: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- $appLicense = $_GET["item_name"]; $error_url = "//the error url"; $key = ""; $privateKey = ""; if ($appLicense == "Software License A") { $key = "//the key for Software-A"; $privateKey = "//the private key for Software-A"; } else if ($appLicense == "Software License B") { $key = "//the key for Software-B"; $privateKey = "//the private key for Software-B"; } else { header("Location: $error_url"); die; } //remaining lines of code involve the email message -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- but ultimately that didn't work either, which kinda surprised me since the data is clearly being used already... i must be calling it wrong?... :-/ On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Sherm Pendley <sherm.pend...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: > >> $appLicense = $_POST["appLicense"]; > > Try this instead: > > $appLicense = $_GET["appLicense"]; > >> isn't this the correct method to incorporate >> customized php variables with the AquaticPrime scripts? > > It depends. When an HTML form has a "method" attribute with a value of > "POST", the form will be submitted using the HTTP POST method, and (in PHP) > the form inputs will be found in $_POST. > > When you link to an ordinary URL with a query string, such as > "http://foo.example/whatever.php?appLicense=Bar";, the HTTP GET method is > used to send the request, and the input from the query string is in $_GET. > > If you want the receiving script to handle either one, use $_REQUEST, which > includes the contents of both $_POST and $_GET, as well as $_COOKIES. > > sherm-- > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
