Hi, I have built an information portal in PHP [Something like a recipe book], where the first few recipes are free to access. The advanced recipes are available only to paid members. I intend to use a simple subscribe now paypal button. When the user clicks on this button, he is directed to paypal website and upon payment redirected to my site. How do I collect the payment information from paypal? I do not want to use a wsdl. I need the information to update my user level field [0 for registered users, 1 for paid users] in the users table. Any pointers? Does IPN do the trick for this? Is there a better solution for this? Thanks, Bharadwaj
IPN works for your situation very well. Your situation is not unusual and is quite common for IPN. For a few bucks rent a coder to do some custom work for your site. I have the same situation and for less that 200 bucks I also get the customer added to and subscribed to my mailing list (automatically upon the receipt of the IPN email), custom payment pages at PayPal, and a few more tricks.