anyone else have input? Thanks for your Justin.. Im gonna wait for a few more replies then check into it.
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin Scott To: CF-Talk Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 1:42 PM Subject: Re: CF and PayPal > I have a shopping cart on a clients website and he would like > to use paypal to process the final transaction. Ok.. first off, be prepared for a number of flames on this, as many people hate PayPal for various reasons. I personally have no problem with them, so here we go... 1. Once the user submits the order, you will need to store it and flag it as "in process" somehow. 2. You will need to use one of PayPal's wizards through their web site to setup a sample multiple-item purchase. You can then use that sample data to build the URL you will end up sending the users to for payment. 3. PayPal has a fairly new feature called Instant Payment Notification. This is setup on the PayPal account and basically will post a form to a URL you specify. This should be a special processing page on your server that will flag the specified order as "paid" then notify the client, etc. It will also need to post some information back to PayPal for tracking purposes. Most of the info you will need can be found at: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/pdn/paypal-solutions You will need to be logged in to access that link directly. If you don't feel like building everything yourself, take a look at the developer's exchange. There are a few existing PayPal custom tags that will handle everything, but they all required registration the last time I looked. Hope that helps a bit! -Justin Scott, Lead Developer Sceiron Internet Services, Inc. http://www.sceiron.com ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
