Question

I have created a basket where a customer can add to and update etc. The product itself is grabbed from the database and displayed in a table in the basket. How do I use Paypal from here? I now want a button called ‘pay’ that the user can click and then it takes them to Paypal to pay. But I want the details of the items to be reciprocated in the Paypal receipt.

I have signed up to paypals web standard payment. I think I just need the buy button but as mentioned, I am not sure how to get products over to Paypal. I have noticed that the steps are similar for third party carts but the code provided is this:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">  
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> 
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1"> 
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="[e-mail]"> 
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="Item Name 1"> 
<input type="hidden" name="amount_1" value="1.00"> 
<input type="hidden" name="shipping_1" value="1.75"> 
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_2" value="Item Name 2"> 
<input type="hidden" name="amount_2" value="2.00"> 
<input type="hidden" name="shipping_2" value="2.50"> 
<input type="submit" value="PayPal"> 

But I dont see how this can relate to my cart. This shows that the cart has 2 items (item_name_1 & item_name_2) but what if the customer has 3? How am I suppose to know how many items the customer has added?

Same issue with the amount – how do I know that an item is going to cost £1.00 or £2.00?

This does not appear to by dynamic depending on what the customer selects? Can somebody explain

Answer 1

You just connect to your database and loop the values from your database to the form’s input types.

SELECT * from customer where customer_id = $customer_id