The Paypal interface has been poorly handled here before, so I want something useful to me and others. The basic <FORM> I will post below. I am storing the data in sessions, which came from a database.
Paypal says to send your order in a form, which they present for payment. Not interested in giving them all the details of an order, instead, we are going to use Paypal's first option --
Method 1. Passing the Aggregate Cart Amount to PayPal
(
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/pdn/howto_checkout)
I need help formatting the "aggregate Cart" with PHP and database fields, or in my case, session data. We need to make the Item (their t-shirt example) read :
"Your order of <date> for <X> Items from <site>, Total Order Cost <$amount>.
To do this:
1. The <date> needs to be gotten from the server and presented like -- May 16, 2005
2. The site could be hard coded, but I would like to extract "
www.thissite.com" from the URL itself.
3. The <X> quantity is the number of items in the PHP session, which is the "key" in this statement --
foreach($_SESSION['divs'] as $key => $val)
In that loop we will:
(a) add the number of items, which will .$_SESSION['divs'][$key]['
qty']., convert to a character
(b) add up the <$amount> from each item, $_SESSION['divs'][$key]['p
rice'] times the qty above
(c) total and convert $amount to 2 decimal places
(d) take the value of shipping returned from a javascript function Calc_ship(), say call it 'totship'
(e) add to total price in B above, to get order total, but split each into the form going to Paypal.
Take your time with this code, it has not been done this way before in this section, AFAIK.
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