Receiving Paypal payments automatically

[FliesLikeABrick]

http://digg.com/programming/Adding_Paypal_to_your_site_with_PHP

This digg submission points to what used to be a very popular page that illustrated how to have paypal automatically send payment information to a page on your website using POST, and how to parse the data they provided (what variables were used, etc).

That page has since disappeared, and it isn't cached on google or archive.org due to robots.txt restrictions on zend.org.

Can anyone show me an equivalent page that explains what I mentioned above? 

[bja888]

You mean you need the php subscription api?


https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_recurringpayments.html

[FliesLikeABrick]

No, there's a separate thing they have such that every time <your paypal account> receives a payment, paypal's servers hit a page on your site (you tell them in a setting what page to use) and it sends a HTTP POST request to that page with a whole bunch of variables set that say how much money, what currency, who the sender was, what time/date etc etc etc.

I want to know what those variables are.  That zend page had a really good page explaining each variable and the best way to interpret the data.

This is different from what you linked because the recurring payments API appears to be for recurring payments only, and is useless for one-time purchases/payments

[bja888]

Hold on... I know what your talking about...

How about this....
https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_expresscheckout.html#step3

Nudge.
https://checkout.google.com
^ Much better API

[FliesLikeABrick]

Looks like the right thing, I'll take a better look at it tomorrow.


I'll look into Google Checkout, I have no reason not to offer that to my customers once I hve the time to implement it

edit: eh, not quite.  I'm pretty much looking for something that "pushes" information to a page of mine whenever a payment is received.