Comments on: Easy payments using Paypal IPN

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:37:04 +0000

Hi Tiziano,

Please post your code while using pastebin.com
Wordpress comments and code doesn’t work together.

Olaf

By: Tiziano

Tiziano — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:33:59 +0000

Well this is mine one very basic just the PayPal script.
In case the transaction is successful, it should send me an OK email. In case is negative a NO OK email in case neutral a NEUTRAL email. No one of these works. Nor in the SandBox nor in the reality.

I even tried yesterday just to create a file in a 777 directory to see if something “hidden” happens. Zero.

Here the code, please

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By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:27:05 +0000

The problem from that guy lies in some script errors, that tells me that the IPN should work using the sandbox. That brings us to the beginning
If you check the transactions in your sandbox account, are there the payments you have done with your application?

By: Tiziano

Tiziano — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:18:39 +0000

I ‘ve read the link you posted.
The declared solution it seems in MySQL. It’s a pity that nor 1 line of PHP refers to MySQL but to a socket to PayPal.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:07:06 +0000

This article is about an old IPN feature from ~5 years ago. At the same tome they started to provide premium services and maybe they never fixed the problems... I did some search on google and found this post.

By: Tiziano

Tiziano — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:53:15 +0000

Is PayPal “hiding” from IPN due some security lack ?
I mean it was much easy to use IPN because all the operations can be automatized without any human intervention.
BUt this kind of behavior from payPal is making me suspecting that there is some lack some where …

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:44:48 +0000

Yes, that was my experience a view years ago. The “simple” Paypal IPN was never a great solution, many people complaining this on the Paypal forum

By: Tiziano

Tiziano — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:40:55 +0000

Well but the “cancelled payments” I tested in real platform. I sued the SandBox yesterday cause I’m desperate.

In other words, you tell me:

In SandBox (which is designed to test everything) the ipn test doesn’t work.
Working in the real platform, it works at the 70% (while to me never worked).

I’m really concerned with them

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:16:25 +0000

Tiziano, that is an easy one: It doesn’t work in the sandbox

I did always some tests with real payments (not so much because of possible refunds)

By: Tiziano

Tiziano — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:08:31 +0000

Hello Olaf

the problem is that it never worked to me.
I also emulated the full payment with sandbox.paypal and not any notification was sent to my server through ipn.php
I mean: PayPal never called it.
Moreover in theory it should works with all kind of subscriptions, not only with premium