Apr 15th, 2010, 1:19 PM
Well, the problem with that is that if you send a confirmation to the client BEFORE the payment has been cleared ... and then ... it does not clear, you are hooped. You pretty well have to get the confirmation back after Paypal. So, you must depend on PP to get this info back to you. I have used IPN in the past but it does not seem to be working the way it is supposed to with formtools. I am now using the files from the Paypal tutorial, which includes a file to forward the submission on to PP and the IPN script to make sure everything went well. But this time ... it does not seem to work. This is the first time I have tried using formtools with PayPal.
Dave
Dave
(Apr 15th, 2010, 12:53 PM)martin_undefined Wrote: Hi Dave,
Having recently worked through the Paypal stuff, I can sympathise!
Just a thought, would it be easier (possible even?) to confirm before submitting to Paypal i.e. just use the second page? That might simplify the whole process for you.
I'm only guessing, but I'd bet that the form is being thrown because of the first page.
Martin
(Apr 12th, 2010, 1:28 PM)filch Wrote: OK ... well I am beyond frustrated with trying to get this form working with PayPal. I have either become suddenly stupid (possible) or I am missing something obvious ... or it simply will not work. Because I am assuming that something in the way I have constructed this form, I have now decided on a different approach. I am pointing the first part of the form to a second page with a form on it and populating hidden fields in that form with the data from the first, thus allowing the user to confirm before submitting. I am trying to add the code from the PayPal tutorial on the site so it is on this second form that I am adding the links to the library and conf files. I have set this up as a multipage form in Formtools but perhaps I should be treating it as a single page form? At any rate, even though it is properly calling the library files and I can echo out the proper form id and mode ... the damn thing will not initialize.
I really could use a second or third pair of eyes on this before I go MAD!
Any help would be really appreciated.
Dave