Joor Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I was going to give the IPN another shot today and low and behold Jeffrey Wilke had just released a new version yesterday. I am not the developer of this hack and can not provide support for it, but since no seems to be able to get IPN to work, I thought I should point some users this way. The contrib is not complicated like the others and it is bone dry simple, you touch absolutely nothing in osCommerce. Setup the config file and goto paypal and setup IPN to point to the paypalipn.php included in the zip file. To setup IPN at paypal, I goto "Merchant Tools" on the top, scroll to the bottom and click on the "Instant Payment Notification", click on "Technical Overview", and finally in the article in the first paragraph click on "Start using IPN". Turn it on and set the full url to http://yoursite.com/catalog/paypalipn.php Now from what I have tested is that all the paypalipn.php script does is verify the order and set it as a pending order in your cart, so once they hit the pay button, it will show up in the cart. In other words, it gets rid of the dreaded, user doesn't click all the buttons at paypal so you only get their money and no invoice. So here is the contrib, I hope all of you that are looking for the bare essentials find this as simple as I did when the others were cumbersome and didn't actually work. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1466 or direct download http://oscommerce.sunsite.dk/contributions...NGateway_02.zip http://www.oscommerce.com/contributions/Pa...NGateway_02.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin WFCOMICS Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Hey, thanks for chiming in :). I was a little confused on the installation process, so thanks for clarifying that. I was thinking of installing it too. Has anyone else installed this? Can you share with us your experience? Likes? Dislikes? Any bugs? Thanks!! Justin =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joor Posted September 7, 2003 Author Share Posted September 7, 2003 Well low an behold, it doesn't work anymore on both the sites I set it up on. It used to be when you hit the pay button in paypal it was sent to the cart as well. Now it is only done again with the contiune button after that screen. I think PayPal changed something. Why on earth can osC not have an IPN that works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin WFCOMICS Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Well low an behold, it doesn't work anymore on both the sites I set it up on. It used to be when you hit the pay button in paypal it was sent to the cart as well. Now it is only done again with the contiune button after that screen. I think PayPal changed something. Why on earth can osC not have an IPN that works? That's a bummer :(, have you, by chance, found a fix for this? Justin =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 any luck with this??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailex Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 not sure how the paypal module knows you added the the ipn function, I am getting abit frustrated with trying to get IPN to work I get an error page I see others get alittle farther but the install instructions must be missing something I followed every one to the letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deborahgsmith Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 Hello. I am trying to get this to work and have run into the same problems. Any ideas? Thanks! Deborah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airuma Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 I agree this was an easy to install contribution... and it worked for a while. Than I installed the CCGV contribution and the paypal ipn just died. Any ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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