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Well I really had no idea where to put this, I am using PHP for this so I figured this would be my best bet.
I am building a site for a client of mine. Basically he wants to have those paypal "buy now" links. I figured those would be easy enough to setup. I am a bit wrong. It should be easy for manual things like a real product. However, he wants them to be able to purchase downloadable goods. With this in mind, the only thing I can possible think of for this, is to link them to a static page that has the downloads, once they get there add their username into the database of allowed users.
There has got to be a way to do this automatically though, if a user buys a product now and sends the links to his friends everybody and their dog will be able to download the products, of course I realize that they could just download and email the product but that canot be stopped, this can be.
I want to be able to modify the database row that they are in, to say that they have purchased it.
Does paypal have the ability to do this? I realize for manual things this would be perfect but I do not think this will work good for this type of business.
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Posted 16 August 2009 - 10:25 AM
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Posted 16 August 2009 - 10:29 AM
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Why don't you use an expiring download link? Some companies use this and the link is invalid after 24 or 42 hours. Aside from that, I don't think paypal has that ability. After payment, paypal does send them to a return page of your choosing. You could make this page a form for the user to add their username to the db.
Regnow.com has the ability to collect information and will also handle the downloads for you. You can even send them a license key algorithm that they will issue to the users/buyers.
Regnow.com has the ability to collect information and will also handle the downloads for you. You can even send them a license key algorithm that they will issue to the users/buyers.
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Posted 16 August 2009 - 10:34 AM
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Yes I could have a page that dies after x amount of time, but I believe paypal does not let me edit the page that they go to dynamically.
I will check out regnow.com
Maybe if it forwards to a page that just does a mysql update, then quickly transfers them over to another page... like in the php headers or something..
That may work unless somebody knows it exists... good thing I did not make a public thread about it... :P
I will check out regnow.com
Maybe if it forwards to a page that just does a mysql update, then quickly transfers them over to another page... like in the php headers or something..
That may work unless somebody knows it exists... good thing I did not make a public thread about it... :P
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Posted 16 August 2009 - 10:36 AM
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I thought they did let you edit that page they return to. Regnow.com is great for software and electronic downloads/payment. I've had an account with them for years and I think they accept paypal payments (not sure though).
