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Displaying total received in paypal account...

Asked by: tsaikkala

I want a counter as shown on www.evolt.org

up the top you will see a paypal donations counter...
I want to be able to print on my webpage, how much i have received into my paypal account.

The user that can answer this question will not only get 250 points, but i will give them free php/mysql hosting...

This is urgent, i need my users to see how much has been sent to my paypal, so we can see how close we are to the target donations...

Thanks in advance...

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2003-05-07 at 07:06:31ID20608520
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Miscellaneous Programming

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Answers

 

by: polmintPosted on 2003-05-07 at 10:51:40ID: 8481710

hi tsaikkala,

I assume that u have already signed up with paypal, created an account and have the paypal button on your site. Now once u have done it. Lets explore how this objective of yours is to be achieved.

Q. How do u know how much u have recieved as donation in your paypal account?

Log on to your account and check the transaction logs and get the details.

So in reality you account balances are maintained at the paypal server for which u need to log in and check.

One can write a program to automatically log in and get the balance. This may not be possible as I assume that paypal is enough secure to block automated script logging. So no entry this way.

But we need not be disappointed. The alternative would be to store some user information at the your end.

What u need to do is to capture the user details along with the amount he wants to donate before submitting the same to the paypal servers.
below url may be of use to u on this http://cow.mooresystems.com/~amoore/scripts/paypalipn.txt

you can add a database table some thing similar to that in that article.

Also u need to set up IPN - Instant Payment Notification. There is a whole tutorial on IPN at this site
http://www.webmasterinabox.net/paypal_ipn_3.html

Coming to the point what this IPN sends back to your server is whether the Transaction is Accepted or Failed.

When u setup the whole thing u know what is the balance in your account and u know what is being incremented. (Increment the balance if the transaction is Accepted). So now u have ended up with net balance in your account.

Next step is to fix a target for the donation and then display actual balance v/s target in a graphical format.

What I have given u the logic framework of how this can be achieved.

Now if u want actual code and setting up then please visit http://www.paypalipn.com/board/cgi-bin/forum_show.html where u can find some freelancers who are do it for a fee.

Hope this answers your query.

Thanks,



 

by: polmintPosted on 2003-05-09 at 20:36:10ID: 8498441

hi tsaikkala,

You havent come back on my reply. Please let us know whether it answers your query or not.

Thanks,

 

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