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[J1mmy]

Hi,

I have an item on ebay which requires and email to be sent once the payment has been confirmed through paypal.

Right, now every time a payment comes through i get an email from paypal telling me this. After this, i then send the email

i want to know a way which automtically send the email once the payment is verified.

how can i do this, some people have done this, i want to know how too.

Thanks.

[felgall]

Use a Paypal IPN script to add your own processing when Paypal confirms the payment. See http://www.felgall.com/php6a.htm for details of an IPN script that I wrote.

[mlseim]

PayPal can utilize the "IPN" feature where you set up a pre-determined
security code and after the transaction, PayPal returns a code back to
the server-side script (PHP or Perl). The script then does all the proper
processing ... which could be inventory control, email confirmations, etc.

PayPal offers a method for developing and testing the IPN transaction
without actually making a real credit card purchase ... if you go to PayPal,
look at the web developer stuff or something called the "sandbox". This
is a free development tool that PayPal offers for creating and testing the
hand-shaking of the IPN. Once tested and operating, you then use the
scripting on your "real" PayPal account.

All of this is quite advanced in the server-side scripting field, but there are
tutorials on the internet that explain in detail how to use PayPal IPN.

See some of these search findings:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=paypal+ipn+tutorial&btnG=Google+Search