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[Kenneth Downs]

Kristina Anderson wrote:
> the string I get back from Paypal doesn't have that email address...
>
> just transaction id, "completed", amount & item number.
>   

ah, yes,forgot to mention that.  You can generate your own order # for 
the transaction and give it to paypal, and they will give it back to you. 

You can follow this chain:

1) Insert a row into your customer-pdf table, with a flag indicating it 
is not complete
2) Pull the id from the row and hand it to Paypal as the order #
3) When the IPN comes back you use the ID # to know what customer and 
pdf are involved, and you can get any customer information from your 
customer file.


>   
>> Or just email the purchasers email address (obtained through paypal) 
>>     
> the 
>   
>> .pdf.
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>> Kristina Anderson wrote:
>>     
>>> This might be off topic as well...but I have a PHP app that submits 
>>>       
> to 
>   
>>> Paypal and then on the "thank you" page, I provide a link to a PDF 
>>>       
> that 
>   
>>> they bought.
>>>
>>> The server is Unix based, and before submitting the sale, I collect 
>>> various information about the user, and then when the transaction 
>>>       
> is 
>   
>>> complete, I get a unique transaction ID from Paypal.
>>>
>>> What's the easiest, quickest way to provide some level of 
>>>       
> complexity to 
>   
>>> the downloads so that people can't just go back into the directory 
>>>       
> and 
>   
>>> download every PDF without paying?  It doesn't have to be 100% 
>>>       
> secure 
>   
>>> but should be secure enough to keep out "most" people.
>>>
>>> I've been looking into .htaccess but wondering if that's overkill 
>>>       
> and 
>   
>>> there isn't some way to authenticate against my DB information 
>>>       
> before 
>   
>>> allowing the download?
>>>
>>> -- Kristina 
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-- 
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
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