PayPal: How to get amount what people enter, when donating to me?

[sonic656]

Hi. I want to get the amount that people donate to me and I want to put it to database. Anybody knows how to do it? Thx for help.

[SB65]

You can certainly do this for payments using the Paypal IPN service which will send a message to a listener when a payment is completed. You could write the listener in PHP and use that to update a database dependent on the message received - which includes details of the transaction.

What I'm not certain of is whether the IPN service supports donations as opposed to payments.