How to create a record in table of IPN transaction

reddymade

How can i create an automatic record once someone pays using paypal for services online.
I do receive an email saying so and so member paid and their emailaddress. now i would like to create a record automatically into my table and give access to the member directly without my intervention.

Please let me know, what do i have to do.

Thank you very much for the information.

devinemke

insert the data into your db before you send it along to paypal.

reddymade

Hello Devin,
As per your suggestion if i create a record to the table before i direct the member to Paypal, and the user at paypal decides not to make payment, and he cancels it.

Now my database shows the record as the user made payment.

Please tell me if i am wrong.
Thank you very much for the information.

devinemke wrote:
insert the data into your db before you send it along to paypal.

devinemke

have not used paypal but many of the popular payment gateways allow you to configure a url where the data is POSTed after a transaction along with some sort of result code indicating that the payment went through successfully. you would need to setup a script on your server that takes that POSTed data and inserts it to your db. check the paypal docs to see if such a feature exists in their config.