[ic] PayPal IPN

[Terral Artis]

>On 31 Jul 2003 at 22:42, Terral Artis wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have IC working with PayPal and IPN?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Terral
>==================================
> >G.S. Wrote

> >It is very easy to get working easier than any real payment gateway, but 
> not as reliable
> >since you don't have control (customer changing his/her mind, customer 
> computer
> >freezing up and that sort of stuff) over what the customer might do 
> while at paypal.com
> >send you a payment.
>
> >This is how I have it setup as,
>
> >I added the appropriate columns to my  transactions table to store PayPal.
> >       pp_payment_status
> >       pp_pending_reason
> >       pp_payment_date
> >       pp_payment_gross
> >       pp_txn_type
> >       pp_payment_type
> >       pp_payer_status
> >Which store the appropriate PayPal variables.
> >I use avs for the address status from PayPal and auth_code for the 
> transaction id from
> >PayPal.
>
> >I added (you could create a new payment method or just rename one of the 
> others, I
> >prefer a new method much cleaner & portable) the Payment method for 
> PayPal in my,
> >       etc/profiles.order,
> >       etc/log_transaction and
> >       ord/checkout pages.
>
> >I added a button with preset values to send to PayPal on my receipt page 
> (it shows only
> >if the customer choses PayPal). I created a Payment Successful page and 
> a payment
> >failed page. I use a php script to update my database.
>
> >I just remembered I still need to add the appropriate fields in the 
> admin area of order
> >checking, not too much work.
>
> >Whenever I get done with creating a real address book which I started 
> after finishing
> >this I will either post the PayPal code or send it to the ICDEVGROUP and 
> if they wish to
> >add it to the foundation demo they could.

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Did you get this to work with PayPal IPN?  A posting of your PayPal code 
would be great.

Thanks

Terral