[bluechester]

So I decided to use the PayPal merchant service to allow players to "donate for benefits" on my server, and it seems that the Title feature that PayPal has to offer doesn't work. (or am I looking at the wrong spot in my PayPal account?)

http://i45.tinypic.com/2ebeovm.png

Where it says title in the picture, on my site it says "Enter STEAM_ID:". However when people enter their STEAM_ID, it doesn't show up anywhere in the payment they made in my PayPal. Could someone show me where to look for this field?

[Styles]

That isn't the ideal way to do that.. Easiest way, is when they pay, on completion via PayPal (When you make the button you have a choice to do this). You redirect them to a page, from there have a simple form to fill out like steamid ect..

[Sepehr]

Originally Posted by Styles That isn't the ideal way to do that.. Easiest way, is when they pay, on completion via PayPal (When you make the button you have a choice to do this). You redirect them to a page, from there have a simple form to fill out like steamid ect..

Yeah that's what i did with mine, but make sure people can't go onto the form page at anytime, so make some security so that people cant just save the URL, and keep visiting the form page when they haven't actually bought anything.

[bluechester]

Even if it isn't the ideal way to do it, is there a way to fix my issue?

[Styles]

Well wtf is your issue exactly I don't get it. By the way for security check refer and a few other things.

[bluechester]

Originally Posted by bluechester However when people enter their STEAM_ID, it doesn't show up anywhere in the payment they made in my PayPal. Could someone show me where to look for this field?

To sum it up:

• User buys admin
• User enters Steam ID
• I get the payment
• I do not get the Steam ID

I can not see where the Steam ID is in the purchase in my PayPal account.

[Styles]

I don't know how Paypal works via their own button system. Again I recommend generating a button. Then use an IPN (Instant Payment Notification) to log it and redirect them to a page to then ask for that info or give them further instructions like email me here and please include your transaction id (Assuming you don't know PHP this will be hard. But for a fee it can be done. Many people are fluent in PHP around here. I bet we could even help for free if you get somewhere)

[VMAN]

PHP Code:

<?php
if(strlen(strstr($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], "https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr")) > 0) {
//Was referred from paypal
// go ahead and include page content
// include("bleh.inc");
}
else {
  // not from paypal
  echo "Error.";
  exit;
}
?>

[VMAN]

Tested and works. Just replace values with your own

PHP Code:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_blank" onsubmit="return pp_checkform()">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_donations">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="ORGANIZATION NAME">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="DONATION ID">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-DonationsBF:btn_donateCC_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest">
<input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Steam ID">
Steam ID: <input id="pp_steamid" type="text" maxlength="32" name="os0">
<br />
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
function pp_checkform() {
  var field = document.getElementById("pp_steamid").value;

  if(field == null || field.length == 0) {
    alert("Steam ID is required.");
    return false;
  }

  else {
    return true;
  }
}
</script> 


[Styles]

VMAN, refer can be spoofed easily.