Simple cart for PayPal

[androt]

I’m not that well versed in PHP or JavaScript, however, I understand the basics and simple applications.

I have a website where I’ll be selling just a one book and process the payment through PayPal. I need a simple cart to make a total of the book(s) plus shipping and send this to Paypal. So the buyer will enter a number of books they want and choose the destination country. Then cart calculates the total (price plus shipping) where the shipping has a variable of a country and the # of books ordered. For example: USA will have a different rates for one, two, three, etc. books than the U.K. or Germany would.

I can’t use the PayPal’s cart because my shipping has too many variables that they don’t provide.

I’ll greatly appreciate any help as I got frustrated and discouraged by trying adapt a full scale shopping cards to my needs, without any success.

Here’s the code of PayPal’s cart, if that can be of any help.

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but22.gif" border="0" name="submit">
<input type="hidden" name="add" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="[e-mail]">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Baqca - Book One of the Golden Wyvern">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="13.95">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
</form>

Thank you in advance,

Andre

[Kudose]

I just pulled these from my shopping cart, gateway for pay-pal, so I know all of these variables can be passed.

You can use a database to keep track of the content of the $cart_order_number. If you do, then your set. Otherwise this next bit of code might not help you TOO much.

echo"<form target=\"_self\" action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" name=\"SecureForm\" method=\"post\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_xclick\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"$cust1\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cart_order_id\" value=\"$cart_order_id\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"Shopping Cart Order $cart_order_id\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_number\" value=\"$cart_order_id\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"amount\" value=\"$payable\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"total\" value=\"$payable\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"first_name\" value=\"\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"$site_currency\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"last_name\" value=\"$name\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"address1\" value=\"$add_1\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"address2\" value=\"$add_2\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"city\" value=\"$town\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"state\" value=\"$county\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"zip\" value=\"$postcode\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"day_phone_a\" value=\"$phone\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cn\" value=\"How Did You Hear About Us?\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"add\" value=\"1\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"upload\" value=\"1\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"return\" value=\"PURCHASE_RETURN_URL\">
				<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cancel_return\" value=\"CANCEL_RETURN_URL\">
			</form>";

[qadeer_ahmad]

Hi

If u r using Paypall then go to your paypal account in paypall site
www.paypal.com login here or make a account do't worry no need to any visa card in start and then go to "Merchant Tools" after login. and then find "Accepting Website Payments" in this page below this text u see

Accepting Website Payments

PayPal Shopping Cart | Buy Now Buttons
Subscriptions and Recurring Payments | Donations

here u can find ur problem solotion easily ....

[androt]

Thank you for responding to my post. It's apprecited.

Kudose - thanks for the code of your cart, I'll play with it and see what comes out.

Qadeer Ahmad - I have done that as I already have an account with PayPal. Their cart can not do what I need for shipping.

Again, thank you both for the time you took to write me back. It's appreciated.

Andre

[Kudose]

What about a single page with a form. The form will show your book and ask for information from them.

Once they submit that form, have it email all of the information to you, and automatically create a Pay-Pal Buy Now button for them, based from the code I gave you before.

It wont be a simple task, but I think it is exactly what you need.