Response from Paypal not working

gregincolumbus

Hello...I am a newbie so please excuse any newbie annoyances.

I have a site using Filemaker as the backend. I can add records via PHP without issue when called from my site. My issue is that I am not having any luck with the Silent Post feature of Paypal. The post is simply ignored and I get a generic unknown error message.

I have tried appending :443 to my site URL since it has SSL (per Paypal's instructions) but it doesn't help.

What is strange is that I can use a locally called response page and the record is created, but if I use the SAME response page when coming from Paypal, it does not work. Does this sound like it is port issue on my server?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Greg

Scriptmaker

Sorry to sound like I'm sending you away, but there are a few forums made especially for paypal integration that may be of a little more help:

http://www.paypaldev.org/
http://www.paypaldeveloper.com/pdn/board/message?board.id=ipn&thread.id=2

and filemaker:
http://www.fmforums.com/

Good luck!

Stoutman

Silent Post?

You mean the IPN featcher of PayPal?

Thats a major nightmare! Took me dozens of hours to get it working on my shopping cart.

You can either add it as a post repsonce in your existing page, or make a new page. I read the POST variables and parsed it to respond accordingly.

If you do not add an absolute URL to your paypal login through the merchant variables, then you need to add the return page as a hidden in the post form.

It greatly varies dending upon your shopping cart/store variables, but is generic overall. Mine is like this:

This handles it if you dont have the IPN set in the paypal merchant settings. It is also good for using the same paypal account with multiple website payments.

It's up to you to grab the IPN data and insert it, and double check it in your database to see if it was posted already. It really is the best way to ensure paypal payments are finished and ready to be accepted as done.