Shopping Cart with Paypal

[nammae]

Hello everyone.

I am trying to build a shopping cart which use Paypal as payment method.

Because it seems Paypal doesn't allow to create a preconfigured account, I created one manually.

Then I login it, choose Merchant Services > Buy Now Button and fill in all the required fields.

And here is the code I received:

<form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="NEAZGFF87L2HL">
<input type="image" src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

 

It seems different with the one I saw in Jon Lebensold's videos.

<FORM action='' method='post'>
<input type ='HIDDEN' name ='business' value=''>
<input type ='HIDDEN' name ='cmd' value='_cart'>
<input type ='HIDDEN' name ='upload' value='1'>
<input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='USD'>
<input type='hidden' name='lc' value='US'>  
<input type='image' name='submit' src='https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif' alt=' pay online with PayPal '>    
</form>

 

And one more thing, how to change from buy one item at the same time to multiple items?

Thanks in advance.

 

EDIT: I am sorry for not paying attention. It seems someone with same problem as mine posted that question.

[falkencreative]

PayPal has changed their forms since Jon recorded those videos, so go with the most recent version of PayPal's code.

[falkencreative]

For your quantity question, take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5865444/paypal-buy-now-button-dropdown-quantites

 

It looks like PayPal does allow you to set a "quantity" variable (most likely through a hidden field in the form?) that you could use to buy more than one item at a time. Unfortunately I'm not all that experienced with PayPal, so I'm not sure what the exact code is, but hopefully I've pointed you in the right direction.

[nammae]

Thank you very much, Ben.

Well, after searching and testing, I found out that the code in Jon's project files is still useful.

For those of you who got the same problem as mine, here is the solution:

1. Create 2 dummy accounts: one for selling and one for buying as Jon said. (For example, seller@gmail.com and buyer@gmail.com)

 

2. Modify your shopping cart so that is looks like the code below: (Supposed that your cart's items stored in $items variable)

<form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="seller@gmail.com">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">  
<?php for ($i = 0; $i < count ($items); $i++) : ?>
// Display $item, not shown here
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_<?php echo $i; ?>" value="<?php echo $items[i]['name']; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="quantity_<?php echo $i; ?>" value="<?php echo $items[i]['quantity']; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="amount_<?php echo $i; ?>" value="<?php echo $items[i]['amount']; ?>">
<?php endfor; ?>
<input type="image" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif" alt=" pay online with PayPal ">    
</form>

Well, it is exactly as what Jon guided us. We just need to ignore the part creating the code for Buy now button because as Ben said, PayPal has changed their forms