When they customize the business card with text like Name, Address, Cell phone etc, I am collecting that data on the page where the Add To Cart button is. So when they submit the form it goes to PayPal and I loose what they have typed in because paypal ignores inputs that it does not use.
I could submit to a page that does the database insert then have them click the PayPal Cart button to add it to the shopping cart, but why make them submit twice? The Custom field in the IPN is 200 characters and I will probably will use it for a backup, but 200 characters is not a lot and I don't want to take a chance of truncating data. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Haskins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:08 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: paypal cart > > Chad, > > I guess I am kind of lost as to what the problem or what your trying to do > then. I have used paypal in many apps and have had no problem storing the > customers order in a db sending the data to paypal with the itemid being > their cart/orderid. Then paypal IPN notifing my cart the txn was > successful. > > All the data is in the db that they typed without it being truncated. > > Eric > > > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Chad Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought of that, but they also only allow like 80 characters per > option. > > So there is a chance that information could get truncated. > > > > I think the form submitting to two action pages is going to work. I > have > > not found a problem with it yet. Of course if one action page fails > then I > > loose the link between the purchase and the details on the item > purchased. > > So they would have to pick up the phone and find out what they wanted > > printed on the cards. > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: William Seiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:39 PM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Re: paypal cart > > > > > > Simple hack might be to have a 'hidden field' on your form that > concats > > > the 4 fields into 1 field with a specified delimeter. This way you > are > > > passing one var with all 4 lines. When it returns from the paypal > side, > > > you can 'parse' the data into four lines again using the specified > > > delimeter. > > > > > > Just a thought, > > > William > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have run into a situation where PayPals "add to cart" buttons are > > > > not going to work for me. So I am looking for ideas on how to > > > > accomplish this. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309901 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
