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Ian
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3rd Sep 12 at 22:40   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Not buying hosting for it, that would write it off.
Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Wouldn't mind some code snippets to autorespond a Paypal email with some code numbers if anyone has anything.


Are you wanting to autorespond on the paypal confirm emails? Can you not just pipe the emails, scrape for buyers email/comment box for serial and reply back with the correct code?

Alternatively just use the API and knock up a paypal form; it isn't that much of an arseache.

[Edited on 03-09-2012 by Dom]
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Yeah all of that.
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I reckon I can build/host that for you - it's about time I did you a favour.

You wouldn't need any fancy email parsing bollocks - just a short script that accepts a POST request. I'm pretty sure PayPal can be set up to do this following successful payment.

[Edited on 04-09-2012 by evilrob]
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Yeah script that receives a POST and sends an email would cover it.

Not sure what comes through Paypal. Also need to think how to actually market it. Ebay listing would be nice but not sure you can sell that type of thing. Reading you now also need to post data on a CD in addition to emailing.
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http://www.micahcarrick.com/paypal-ipn-with-php.html

^ seems to explain how to do it if you'd rather have a stab at it yourself
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Just done a dump of the renault b#### codes,
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Build it as a WordPress plugin - there are plenty of plugins which let you sell 'digital' products with a wide array of payment gateways. Here's one I'm going to use on a website in a couple of weeks: http://getshopped.org/

Otherwise there is a PHP SDK for PayPal which will give you the callbacks needed: https://cms.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/library_download_sdks
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(After a transaction, PayPal posts back various pieces of data to your web server. It's up to you what you do with that but you'll get enough info back from them to use to decide whether to release the stereo code or not. No need to bollocks about reading emails).
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quote:
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How many times have people used it?
600 unique IPs since December 11. So 2 per day on average.

Probably less if you discount people just doing it to see if it works. Certainly ROI in less than a year if I charged him £250 and it was as busy.

[Edited on 03-09-2012 by Ian]


Sell it for a grand and buy your saxomophone.
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I bet the bloke who sells on ebay just uses yours anyway
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There's a big flaw with using PayPal's Form payments (as shown here - http://www.micahcarrick.com/paypal-ipn-with-php.html) in that it's quite easy to change the form data. So unless you put in the necessary checks on the IPN then you could grab free codes.

Look at the Express Checkout API, it's straight forward and everything is hardcoded; only downside is that you need a SSL cert but grab a free one for StartSSL or a £4 year one from Namecheap.

Ed - Using Wordpress would be far too OTT for what Ian needs; essentially a single pay with a paypal button.
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He's refused my kind offer of £400.

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