adding paypal to existing cgi script

Hi

I have an existing shopping cart on my site.  I would like to add Paypal as an option for payment.  Right now the choices for payment are credit card on line, credit card through fax and cheque by mail.  I would like to subsitute both credit card options with the paypal option but keep the cheque by mail.

I know this is a very vague question but is there a sub that I can add to my existing cgi script? This is an older Webgenie script by the way and I don't want to spend anymore money on buying a new cart.

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

hummer
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cjmosConnect With a Mentor Commented:
In case you can't see any difference,

notice the use of $i int the lines

 print "<input type=hidden name=item_name_$i value=\"$product\">\n";
 print "<input type=hidden name=item_number_$i  value=\"$catNo\">\n";
 print "<input type=hidden name=amount_$i value=\"$price\">\n";
 print "<input type=hidden name=quantity_$i value=\"$qty\">\n";
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cjmosCommented:
Hi, take a look at
Business::PayPal::IPN

http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/Business-PayPal-IPN-1.94/IPN.pm
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hummerrecordAuthor Commented:
Hi cjmos

Thanks for the redirect....however...I must admit I am a know just enought to be dangerous.....so although I understand some of this....I am still not sure how to implement it into the shopping cart script.

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hummerrecordAuthor Commented:
okay

well I am a step closer and actually have figured out how to add the paypal code to my existing cgi script....the code is as follows

$i = 0; # Just a number to define form elements
   foreach $item (@items)
   {
      if ($item)
      {
         if ($item =~ /,/)
         {
            $i++;
            @components = split (/,/, "$item");
            $qty = @components[1];
            $price = @components[2];
            $product = @components[3];
            $catNo = @components[4];
            $weight = @components[5]*$qty;
            $totWeight += $weight;
            $tot = $qty*$price;
            $gtot += $tot;
            $tot = &Monify ($tot);
            $price = &Monify ($price);

   print "<input type=hidden name=item_name_1 value=\"$product\">\n";
   print "<input type=hidden name=item_number_1  value=\"$catNo\">\n";
   print "<input type=hidden name=amount_1 value=\"$price\">\n";
   print "<input type=hidden name=quantity_1 value=\"$qty\">\n";
           }
      }
   }
 
   print "<input type=image src=\"http://images.paypal.com/images/x-clickbut01.gif\" name=submit alt=\"Make payments with PayPal - it?s fast,free and secure\">\n";
   print "</form>\n";

the problem is only the 1st item is being passed to paypal....I need to increment the name values....for example

item_number_1, item_number_2, item_number_3 etc....for eachof the names in the form inputs.....
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cjmosCommented:


hummerrecord, the $i variable is used to increment item_numer for each item. Replace your code with.


$i = 0; # Just a number to define form elements
   foreach $item (@items)
   {
      if ($item)
      {
         if ($item =~ /,/)
         {
            $i++;
            @components = split (/,/, "$item");
            $qty = @components[1];
            $price = @components[2];
            $product = @components[3];
            $catNo = @components[4];
            $weight = @components[5]*$qty;
            $totWeight += $weight;
            $tot = $qty*$price;
            $gtot += $tot;
            $tot = &Monify ($tot);
            $price = &Monify ($price);

   print "<input type=hidden name=item_name_$i value=\"$product\">\n";
   print "<input type=hidden name=item_number_$i  value=\"$catNo\">\n";
   print "<input type=hidden name=amount_$i value=\"$price\">\n";
   print "<input type=hidden name=quantity_$i value=\"$qty\">\n";
          }
      }
   }

   print "<input type=image src=\"http://images.paypal.com/images/x-clickbut01.gif\" name=submit alt=\"Make payments with PayPal - it?s fast,free and secure\">\n";
   print "</form>\n";
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hummerrecordAuthor Commented:
Hi cjmos

You are right....I figured it out yesterday...but thank you for you input....

take care

hummer
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