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MachForm Community Forums Topic: PayPal Integration YEAH!!! https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: PayPal Integration YEAH!!! en Mon, 04 May 2026 02:29:45 +0000 drumaboy46 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11651 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:36:16 +0000 drumaboy46 11651@https://www.machform.com/forums/ awesome let me know how that works for you :) chicagowebmanagement on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11650 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:39:45 +0000 chicagowebmanagement 11650@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Drumaboy, that is perfect. Thanks! And yes, I think this would be a GREAt feature for V3! drumaboy46 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11649 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:09:17 +0000 drumaboy46 11649@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Yes this is correct chicagowebmar you can place that code anywhere you want. by that I mean whatever code you want/need to write you obvious would put it in the right place, then you wrap my code around it example. Let say you wanted php to write "I see monkeys" on your confirm page on line... lets say 85 but you only want to show it for your Zoo registration form, which is form id 16 then it would look like this. <pre><code>//obviously a stupid example but here goes: :) //get the id from url if it equals 16 if($_GET['id'] = '16') { echo "I see monkeys"; //then do this. }</code></pre> the "id" is always present for every form you have making each forms url unique this is whats great about machform. example: ...machform/views.php?id=16 In order for you to retrieve data from paypal (Paypal.com) yes you need to learn a little about the first post and IPN's its not to difficult. My code looks complicated and could have been cleaner I was in a rush when I did it , but read over it just to get the basic idea and any ? you have I will help. Yes you need to create a table the way I did it was like this. 1. create a field in your form and hide it using CSS (to get element name simply view the source code in a browser) 2. pre-fill that field when the form loads (viewable to user) 3. on submit send all data to machform db as usual then redirect to paypal passing the session in the pay buy link or button (as mentioned in first post) 4. once member has paid paypal will automatically send data to the script (as mentioned in first post) within seconds 5. create a script to compare the id's from your machform entry and paypals entry if they match you know the paid but IF they don't match then echo "your payment has not been processed yet"; or whatever you want to say. Do you understand the concept? Just because a form is submitted and the user is redirected does not mean that they have paid you. <pre><code>(I'm not yelling but I just want to be clear so the same ?'s aren't asked multiple times.) PAYPAL IPN IS THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW AND ....RETRIEVE ANY AND ALL PAYMENT DATA FROM PAYPAL AFTER YOUR FORM HAS REDIRECTED THEM YOU CAN ONLY PASS DATA TO PAYPAL VIA THEIR CUSTOM URL PARAMETERS AND CAN ONLY RETRIEVE THAT INFO ONCE IT HAS ARRIVED IN YOUR DB. ALTHOUGH YOU CAN PLACE A REDIRECT URL IN YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT IT WILL HAVE NO SESSION DATA AVAILABLE TO YOU OR A CUSTOM URL WHICH YOU CAN $_GET INFO FROM</code></pre> <a href="https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_admin_IPNIntro" rel="nofollow">https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_admin_IPNIntro</a> please let me know if you need more help....drumaboy out! HEY APPNITRO THIS BETTER BE A FREAKN FEATURE IN MACHFORM V3 (Now i'm yelliing lol!) there are a lot of post about this feature! chicagowebmanagement on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11643 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:13:37 +0000 chicagowebmanagement 11643@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Thanks Drumaboy46! So I understand clearly, where would I place your three lines of code? Do I need to use your paypal.php code or no? I understand about IPN values, but wanted to know about being able to store the form payment receipt details in the database as well. I'd still have to add a payments table wouldn't I? Just looking for additional clarification, and again, THANKS! drumaboy46 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11641 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:40:43 +0000 drumaboy46 11641@https://www.machform.com/forums/ mig2000 this is a free forum you shouldn't have to pay anyone for a simple paypal btn. I can post step by step here its been a while but my form and paypal intergration has worked now for over a year and my clients couln't be more pleased and the one who helped me do it all was Yuniar so I'm giving back to the forum as a thank you and always will. drumaboy46 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11636 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:23:52 +0000 drumaboy46 11636@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Hi I'm drumaboy and I actually started this post. I have a working "complete pay intergration". You can acheive what you want by simply using this type of code. <pre><code>//'X' being your forms ID if($_GET['id'] == 'X'){ //Do whatever }</code></pre> You do not need to duplicate view-functions or post-functions...that may get real messy in the end. I hope that makes sense. I came back to the post to help everyone so please me anything. By the way just so everyone knows to store data from paypal after or machform submission you must use paypals IPN or their api to retrieve notifications of payments to your processing script. chicagowebmanagement on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11628 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:00:37 +0000 chicagowebmanagement 11628@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Okay, I'd like to implement this myself, but the client has OTHER forms using Machform and I don't want to negatively impact it. So, does anyone know if we can run the mods without affecting other forms, or do I need to specify this modified form to use the modified files view-functions2.php and view-functions2.php (thereby keeping the changes separate from non-paypal form). Any thoughts on this? mig2000 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11173 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:40:17 +0000 mig2000 11173@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Trowar Are you available now? I do not mind to pay for your time if you can get this done for me. Please let me know. Thanks artitmedia on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-11169 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:17:49 +0000 artitmedia 11169@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Hello guys. I am as ASP developer and I want to implement paypal payment in one of my websites. All is good until the part with keeping (remembering) the form variables after the payment, as most of us struggle. Is anyone familiar with ASP and can collaborate with me on this matter? I will gladly share my knowledge with someone in the same situation in order to overcome the little problem we have. After all, 2 brains are better than one. :) Trowar on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-10761 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:51:53 +0000 Trowar 10761@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Sorry, I'm so swamped with work stuff at the moment. If you understand what the person is doing (yau have a knowledge of php and sql) thenf ollow the instructions. If you don't you would probably be better paying someone to do it for you. I wouldlove to help but I have some urgent matters to deal with and just don't have the time to write and post the code here. Intergrating with a paypal cart can get quite tricky. What's your timescale for getting this done? mig2000 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-10757 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:17:13 +0000 mig2000 10757@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Trowar, Can you please advice? Thanks mig2000 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-10681 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:42:49 +0000 mig2000 10681@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Trowar, Should I go ahead and add the codes as the beginning of this post to my form to see if this works for me? Please advice. Thanks mig2000 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-10672 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:53:16 +0000 mig2000 10672@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Hello Trower, Many thanks for all of effort in helping me. At this point, I have not done or use any code as above. As you notice on my link above, I only have a simple form and the submit button which actually takes the user to pay pal . That is it. What I want to do is to take it to next level. I have never integrate anything like this before. Any suggestion that you provide me would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Alex Trowar on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah/page/2#post-10669 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:51:51 +0000 Trowar 10669@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Okay, assuming you have a hidden field containing the session ID in your form (as he mentions he did above), You could probably just add something like this to your 'www.yoursite.com/includes/paypal.php' file below the <code>$insert = mysql_query($sql);</code> <code>mysql_query("UPDATE <code>ap_form_1</code> SET payment = '$payment_status' WHERE sessionid = '$custom'");</code> I am assuming you are using form number 1 (ap_form_1) and that in the table ap_form_1 you have creatused a custom field called 'payment'. If it works, every time a payment is made it should populate the field 'payment' with 'Completed', you could then just use a query to display all orders which had been completed. Though if you use the above example, all paying customers are saved in the 'payments' table anyway and e-mails from paypal.php will only be sent once payment is recieved anyway so surely the above script does everything you need? My site is coded completely differently to the above example but that should work, if it doesn't let me know. Remember you MUST save your session id saved in you ap_form_1 table. Trowar on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah#post-10668 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:17:09 +0000 Trowar 10668@https://www.machform.com/forums/ I'll try to figure out the easierst way. Does you site use the above code? If so I'll try ro write something that integrates into that. mig2000 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah#post-10658 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:45:29 +0000 mig2000 10658@https://www.machform.com/forums/ That sounds Great. Can you share with me the step by step in what I need to do to get that accomplished? In advance I thank you for your help. Trowar on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah#post-10656 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:15:00 +0000 Trowar 10656@https://www.machform.com/forums/ I use a payment system on my machform. I have every entry generate a unique reference. This is passed through paypal using the 'custom' pass-through varibale. When PayPal cofirms the payment through IPN it sends me this reference. My IPN page then uses the reference to locate the customer's record and populates a field to say they have paid. mig2000 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah#post-10648 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:44:11 +0000 mig2000 10648@https://www.machform.com/forums/ I have the following case. I wonder if this can work in my case: Please see the link below. This form requires the user to fill out the form and then the by clicking the Submit, the system takes them to PayPal to pay. How can I have it to make sure they pay before I actually let Macform to add the record to the database or send a copy or the email to the users? The way it is today, the user can create the record and NOT pay the payment. Please advice. <a href="http://www.dsaom.org/contactus/annualwalk/walk2010.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dsaom.org/contactus/annualwalk/walk2010.html</a> mig2000 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah#post-10314 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:29:03 +0000 mig2000 10314@https://www.machform.com/forums/ Has anyone else successfully implemented the above? I would like to do this as I see it to be a similar cases in many application. Thanks for the great work and sharing. drumaboy46 on "PayPal Integration YEAH!!!" https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/paypal-integration-yeah#post-10052 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:26:40 +0000 drumaboy46 10052@https://www.machform.com/forums/ ok I'am back here we go: <pre><code>PLEASE BACK UP ALL YOUR FILES SO YOU DON'T SAY I RUINED YOUR MACHFROM!</code></pre> Step1: Get a paypal account duh! a1: Turn on form reidrect a2: Turn on IPN(instant payment notification) located in the menu profile->more options->Instant Payment Notification Preferences(under selling prefs) you will need to specify your IPN listener url example <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/includes/paypal.php" rel="nofollow">www.yoursite.com/includes/paypal.php</a> (so create a php page for this) call it whatever you want I use paypal.php it doesn't matter. a3: Once your bank info is verified you can have your customers skip paypal signup by "enabling paypal account option" Website Payment Preferences(under selling prefs) this is located in profile->more options->Website Payment Preferences Step2: Edit these include files a1: post-functions.php look for this code <pre><code>//if 'form review' enabled, send review_id if(!empty($form_review)) { $process_result['review_id'] = $record_insert_id; }</code></pre> right underneath that put you code something like this is what I use. I created the paypal links by using a paypal URL generator to get me started then learned the variables from paypal <pre><code>//CUSTOM CODE REDIRECT///////////////////////////////////////////////// if($form_id == "7") { //Here I wanted to prepopulate some of the paypal fields from //they filled out on the machform //Of coarse just replace the elements_# with your elements $first_name = $user_input['element_2_1']; $last_name = $user_input['element_2_2']; //The phone number is split this way cause that's how paypal reads it $ibo_phone_a = $user_input['element_4_1']; $ibo_phone_b = $user_input['element_4_2']; $ibo_phone_c = $user_input['element_4_3']; $payer_email = $user_input['element_5']; //Here I silently pass a session_id that is unique to each payer to //to a hidden form element //later in the code I will show you how to achieve this $custom_session_id = $user_input['element_17']; switch ($user_input['element_8']) { //obviously this is where you would put your products depending on what the //user chooses they will be redirected to the correct paypal url //once the form has been submitted. The redirect will happen after the //the success page is viewed not at the review page //this way they get a "Success you form has been saved redirecting to PP..." case 1 : $item_name = "apples"; break; case 2 : $item_name = "monkeys"; break; case 3 : $item_name = "poo"; break; case 4 : $item_name = "yuniar"; break; case 1 : $redirect = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&first_name=".$first_fname."&last_name=".$last_lname."&night_phone_a=".$ibo_phone_a."&night_phone_b=".$ibo_phone_b."&night_phone_c=".$ibo_phone_c."&email=".$ibo_email."&business=bussnessemail@yoursite.com&undefined_quantity=0&item_name=".$team_name."+&amount=180.00&no_shipping=1&return=yoursite.com&cancel_return=http://www.yoursite.com/cancelled.php&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF&charset=UTF%2d8&custom=".$custom_session_id." target=_self"; break; case 2 : $redirect = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&first_name=".$first_fname."&last_name=".$last_lname."&night_phone_a=".$ibo_phone_a."&night_phone_b=".$ibo_phone_b."&night_phone_c=".$ibo_phone_c."&email=".$ibo_email."&business=bussnessemail@yoursite.com&undefined_quantity=0&item_name=".$team_name."+&amount=280.00&no_shipping=1&return=yoursite.com&cancel_return=http://www.yoursite.com/cancelled.php&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF&charset=UTF%2d8&custom=".$custom_session_id." target=_self"; break; case 3 : $redirect = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&first_name=".$first_fname."&last_name=".$last_lname."&night_phone_a=".$ibo_phone_a."&night_phone_b=".$ibo_phone_b."&night_phone_c=".$ibo_phone_c."&email=".$ibo_email."&business=bussnessemail@yoursite.com&undefined_quantity=0&item_name=".$team_name."+&amount=80.00&no_shipping=1&return=yoursite.com&cancel_return=http://www.yoursite.com/cancelled.php&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF&charset=UTF%2d8&custom=".$custom_session_id." target=_self"; break; case 4 : $redirect = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&first_name=".$first_fname."&last_name=".$last_lname."&night_phone_a=".$ibo_phone_a."&night_phone_b=".$ibo_phone_b."&night_phone_c=".$ibo_phone_c."&email=".$ibo_email."&business=bussnessemail@yoursite.com&undefined_quantity=0&item_name=".$team_name."+&amount=100.00&no_shipping=1&return=yoursite.com&cancel_return=http://www.yoursite.com/cancelled.php&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF&charset=UTF%2d8&custom=".$custom_session_id." target=_self"; break; } //custom code //$process_result['form_redirect'] = $redirect; //you don't need this code //$_SESSION['form_redirect'] = $process_result['form_redirect'];//not needed $_SESSION['form_redirect'] = $redirect; //needed } /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</code></pre> a2: now go to bottom pf post-functions.php around line 2340 you will see this <pre><code>//delete all entry from this user in review table $session_id = session_id(); do_query("DELETE FROM <code>ap_form_{$form_id}_review</code> where id='{$record_id}' or session_id='{$session_id}'"); $commit_result['form_redirect'] = $form_redirect;</code></pre> Right below that add this <pre><code>//CUSTOM REDIRECT CODE //custom code if (!empty($_SESSION['form_redirect'])) { //disable the code to redirect using timer //$commit_result['form_redirect'] = $_SESSION['form_redirect']; } return $commit_result;</code></pre> Step 3: Edit view-functions.php a1: around line 2267 you will see this <pre><code>$form_markup = <<<EOT</code></pre> ABOVE this line put this code <pre><code>if ($form_id == 7 && !empty($_SESSION['form_redirect'])) { $custom_redirect_url = '<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5;url='.$_SESSION['form_redirect'].'">'; unset($_SESSION['form_redirect']); }</code></pre> a2: Now if you wanted the redirects to contain the session_id like I did that way you could use it as a receipt or a unique indetifier if you were creating a DB to store all the data that pay pal sends you like i did read this post <a href="http://www.appnitro.com/forums/topic/session_id-retreival?replies=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/forums/topic/session_id-retreival?replies=3</a> Step 4: Setting up an IPN listener this will enable to store user data into your DB a1: create a table in the your machform DB called lets say payments a2: create a file called paypal.php a3: go to paypal and the you will need to specify your IPN listener url example <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/includes/paypal.php" rel="nofollow">www.yoursite.com/includes/paypal.php</a> a4: In you paypal.php file erase all default html and put this between <body>paste here!</body> tags <pre><code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <? include("../machform/config.php");//Establishes varibles used to connect to you machform DB, then you can specify wich table in your inserst command mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD); @mysql_select_db(DB_NAME) or die( "Unable to select database"); //add 'cmd' as required to get VERIFIED response $req = 'cmd=_notify-validate'; //put post into NVP format foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) { $value = urlencode(stripslashes($value)); $req .= "&$key=$value"; } // setup headers for request to paypal $header .= "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0\r\n"; $header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"; $header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n"; //Open socket $fp = fsockopen ('ssl://www.sandbox.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 30); //Test your IPN with the sandbox account for devs you must create one first //go to <a href="https://developer.paypal.com/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.paypal.com/</a> //$fp = fsockopen ('ssl://www.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);// use this when testing is done and you want to go live if (!$fp)// failed to connect to url { //write to file $fh = fopen("logipn.txt", 'a');//open file and create if does not exist fwrite($fh, "\r\n/////////////////////////////////////////\r\n HTTP ERROR \r\n");//Just for spacing in log file fwrite($fh, $errstr);//write data fclose($fh);//close file //email $mail_From = "From: <a href="mailto:payments@yoursite.com";">payments@yoursite.com";</a> $mail_To = $email; $mail_Subject = "HTTP ERROR"; $mail_Body = $errstr;//error string from fsockopen mail($mail_To, $mail_Subject, $mail_Body, $mail_From); } else//successful connect to url { fputs ($fp, $header . $req);//send request while (!feof($fp)) //while not end of file { $res = fgets ($fp, 1024);//get response if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) //IF ALL PAYPAL IPN VARIABLES ARE VERIFIED PROCEED { //PAYPAL IPN VARIABLES //Payment Information = $_POST['']; $payment_type = $_POST['payment_type']; $payment_date = $_POST['payment_date']; $paymentDateTmp=strtotime($_POST['payment_date']); $ConvertedPaymentDate=strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',$paymentDateTmp); if($_POST['pending_reason'] == ""){ $pending_reason = "none"; }else{ $pending_reason = $_POST['pending_reason']; } if($_POST['reason_code'] == ""){ $reason_code = "none"; }else{ $reason_code = $_POST['reason_code']; } $payment_status = $_POST['payment_status']; $receipt_id = $_POST['receipt_ID']; //Buyer Information $address_status = $_POST['address_status']; $payer_status = $_POST['payer_status']; $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; $payer_email = $_POST['payer_email']; $payer_id = $_POST['payer_id']; $address_name = $_POST['address_name']; $address_country = $_POST['address_country']; $address_country_code = $_POST['address_country_code']; $address_zip = $_POST['address_zip']; $address_state = $_POST['address_state']; $address_city = $_POST['address_city']; $address_street = $_POST['address_street']; $night_phone_a = $_POST['night_ phone_a']; $night_phone_b = $_POST['night_ phone_b']; $night_phone_c = $_POST['night_ phone_c']; //Basic information $business = $_POST['business']; $receiver_email = $_POST['receiver_email']; $receiver_id = $_POST['receiver_id']; $residence_country = $_POST['residence_country']; $item_name = $_POST['item_name']; $item_number = $_POST['item_number'];//Will be used for team name $quantity = $_POST['quantity']; $shipping = $_POST['shipping']; $tax = $_POST['tax']; //Currency and currrency exchange $mc_currency = $_POST['mc_currency']; $mc_fee = $_POST['mc_fee']; $mc_gross = $_POST['mc_gross']; //Full Payment amount before fee's $mc_gross_1 = $_POST['mc_gross_1']; //Transaction fields $txn_type = $_POST['txn_type']; $txn_id = $_POST['txn_id']; $notify_version = $_POST['notify_version']; //Advanced and custom information $custom = $_POST['custom']; //Can either equal a session ID or the number 2 if($_POST['resend'] == ""){ $resend = "none";//amount of time that the IPN message was resent }else{ $resend = $_POST['resend']; } //Obviously you need to create a table with these fields number_of_payments,payment_date,element_2_1,element_2_2,element_5,custom_session_id,payment_amt,payment_status,pending_reason,reason_code,item_name,team_name,pp_receipt_id,times_resent $sql = "INSERT INTO payments (number_of_payments,payment_date,element_2_1,element_2_2,element_5,custom_session_id,payment_amt,payment_status,pending_reason,reason_code,item_name,team_name,pp_receipt_id,times_resent) VALUES ('$number_of_payments', '$ConvertedPaymentDate', '$first_name', '$last_name', '$payer_email', '$custom', '$mc_gross', '$payment_status', '$pending_reason', '$reason_code', '$item_name', '$item_number', '$receipt_id', '$resend')"; $insert = mysql_query($sql); //write to file $fh = fopen("logipn.txt", 'a');//open file and create if does not exist fwrite($fh, "\r\n/////////////////////////////////////////\r\n Verified \r\n");//Just for spacing in log file fwrite($fh, $req);//write data fclose($fh);//close file //email construct //Email address to send emails: $to="youremail@gmail.com";// $from = "payments@yoursite.com"; $subject = "VERIFIED IPN Payment was Successful"; //begin of HTML message $message = " <html> <body bgcolor='#DCEEFC'> <center> <h4>Thank you $first_name for Your purchase.</h4> Below are the details fo your transaction. Date of payment $payment_date new format $ConvertedPaymentDate Paypal Reciept# $receipt_id Item Name: $item_name Payment Amount: $mc_gross <h4>Paypal Variable Test</h4> <li>Date: $ConvertedPaymentDate</li> <li>First Name: $first_name</li> <li>Last Name: $last_name</li> <li>Buyers Email: $payer_email</li> <li>SessionID: $custom</li> <li>Payment Status: $payment_status</li> <li>Pending Reason Code: $pending_reason</li> <li>Reason Code: $reason_code</li> <li>Product: $item_name</li> <li>Team Name: $item_number</li> <li>PayPal Receipt ID: $receipt_id</li> <li>Times IPN was resent: $resend</li> </center> </body> </html>"; //end of message $headers = "From: $from\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n"; //options to send to cc+bcc //$headers .= "Cc: [email]maa@p-i-s.cXom[/email]"; //$headers .= "Bcc: [email]email@maaking.cXom[/email]"; // now lets send the email. mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); } else if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) { //write to file $fh = fopen("logipn.txt", 'a');//open file and create if does not exist fwrite($fh, "\r\n/////////////////////////////////////////\r\n Invalid \r\n");//Just for spacing in log file fwrite($fh, $req);//write data fclose($fh);//close file $to="youremail@gmail.com"; $from = "payments@yoursite.net"; $subject = "INVALID IPN therefore no entry was made into DB"; //Error messge when IPN's are not verified $message2 = " <html> <body bgcolor='#DCEEFC'> <center> <h4>The IPN could not be verified and therefore was invalid.</h4> Below are the details. PayPal IPN Message ".$req." </center> </body> </html>"; $headers = "From: $from\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n"; //options to send to cc+bcc //$headers .= "Cc: [email]maa@p-i-s.cXom[/email]"; //$headers .= "Bcc: [email]email@maaking.cXom[/email]"; // now lets send the email. mail($to, $subject, $message2, $headers); } } fclose ($fp);//close file pointer } ?> </body> </html></code></pre> a5: Now go to <a href="https://developer.paypal.com/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.paypal.com/</a> and open a free dev account log in and on the left where you see test tools click it and then click "Instant Payment Notification (IPN) Simulator." Specify you IPN listener in our case <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/includes/paypal" rel="nofollow">www.yoursite.com/includes/paypal</a> and choose web accept scroll down and click send. and if all goes well you will receive and email and the data should be in the DB as well. PLEASE NOTE: That this took me almost 3days to accomplish and you have to just carfully work the code I will be here to assist you but please have patients I will help. Just make sure to back all original files. thank you hopes this helps. Please Yuniar take my code and make it awesome for next build so we can have paypal and be very cool web devs thank :)