Kristian Kraljić You may compare programming with poetry,
a harmonic script is a piece of creativity which will last forever.
- Kristian Kraljić

PayPal – Generic PHP Payment (PDT/IPN) Script

by Kristian Kraljic, October 7, 2011

To quote the refrain of one of my favorite songs: I’m “Still Alive”. My fourth publication took again a little longer than expected. I had to finish a lot of things at work, unfortunately nothing which I can publish here (yet).

Today I want to introduce my generic PayPal PDT (Payment Data Transfer) and IPN (Instant Payment Notification) script. I have been using it for quite a while now personally, so I thought: “Why not put some more effort into it and release it for everybody”. Using the merchant services of PayPal has been kind of tricky in the past. If you handle your transactions manually you are good to go, but as soon as you start to process your payments automatically, you have no other chance as to integrate either your own PDT and/or IPN script to handle the transactions.

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