I am potentially selling 100's of different items that are dynamically displayed from a database. How do I create the "Buy Now" buttons dynamically? It seems from what I have read that I need to create one button for each item. Can I pass hidden inputs that contain coldfusion variables to the PayPal check out and have an itemized list of items from the cart? I don't think I can as far as I can tell so I am trying to figure out how one can purchase multiple items and see the details once it reaches PayPal. Can anyone help me? Live well, laugh often, love much AND "Pay it forward"

Please bare with my ignorance. I do have a "cart". Once the client is finished shopping I want to pull the "items ordered" out of my database. With the following code, do I understand correctly that I am now "uploading" it to a database at PayPal?

<!---So if I add the extra input tags:--->
<form action="https://payapl.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1".
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="myaccount@domain.com">
<!---To:--->
<cfoutput query="getMyCart">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="#Product_id#">
<input type="hidden" name="quantity" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="#Product_id#">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="#Price#">
<input type="image" src="http://images.paypal.com/images/x-click-butcc.gif" name="submit">
</form>
</cfoutput>

If I am understanding this correctly, this will get me started in the right direction.






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I think I'm making this harder than it should be. Let me ask this and I know this is stupid but:

Okay so I use hidden inputs and pass the order info using

<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="#TotalP#">

is it right to think that obviously PayPal can read the coldfusion variable #TotalP#? I was thinking that they had to have a .cfm file to read it. Or maybe they have code testing to see what file extension it is and then route it properly and then process the code? I guess I just need to understand what's going on.

Anymore comments greatly appreciated.

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Searched the board and nothing on this.

I am using ColdFusion MX on my site and my problem is the following:

---

you have a page that is created dynamically from a database and SQL query which shows all the products within the database, let's call this the product page. When you click on one of the products titles or image, it takes you to a second dynamically constructed page with more specific info on that item, let's call this the detail page.

Now obviously, the "URL.recordid" is a big part of this whole thing to work so that the item selected from your products list is the right one to show up in the details page.

But when one creates a purchase button and/or shopping cart through paypal, they give you code such as the following -

Add to Cart Button

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<p>
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="fangear@fangear.ws">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Inhumanoids">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="20.00">
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://www.fangear.ws/FanGearImages/images/cartlogo.gif">
<input type="hidden" name="cn" value="Fellow Fan">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="image" src="http://www.fangear.ws/FanGearImages/images/getbutton.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<input type="hidden" name="add" value="1">
</p>
</form>

and

View Cart Button

The HTML code below contains your "View Cart" button. Copy the code and paste it onto your webpage. When your customers press the button, they will be taken to a webpage listing the items they will purchase from you.

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="fangear@fangear.ws">
<input name="submit" type="image" src="FanGearImages/images/SubPagesCartButton.gif" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!" width="58" height="31" border="0">
<input type="hidden" name="display" value="1">
</form>

When you look over the code, you realize that it can not be used with dynamically created pages. The code works if you physically placed a button for each item, i.e. . . . not dynamically created page.

How can I have the PayPal generated button notice what the dynamiclly selected product is so that when a customer adds it to his or her cart, it is the correct product??????????

Right now, no matter what item I select, the button places what I have manually typed in to it's hidden fields, . . . can that info be creatred dynamically?

any help.

Hi, does anyone have the answer to this? I've tried the Coldfusion script that PayPal provides, but it doesn't address the dynamic buttons and it seems designed to work with the "buy now" buttons instead of the "add to cart" buttons.

I saw an .ASP solution at paypalhacks.com, but I would love the Coldfusion version.

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[br]Searched the board and nothing on this.

I am using ColdFusion MX on my site and my problem is the following:

---

you have a page that is created dynamically from a database and SQL query which shows all the products within the database, let's call this the product page. When you click on one of the products titles or image, it takes you to a second dynamically constructed page with more specific info on that item, let's call this the detail page.

Now obviously, the "URL.recordid" is a big part of this whole thing to work so that the item selected from your products list is the right one to show up in the details page.

But when one creates a purchase button and/or shopping cart through paypal, they give you code such as the following -

Add to Cart Button

&lt;form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="business" value="fangear@fangear.ws"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Inhumanoids"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="amount" value="20.00"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://www.fangear.ws/FanGearImages/images/cartlogo.gif"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="cn" value="Fellow Fan"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"&gt;
&lt;input type="image" src="http://www.fangear.ws/FanGearImages/images/getbutton.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;

and

View Cart Button

The HTML code below contains your "View Cart" button. Copy the code and paste it onto your webpage. When your customers press the button, they will be taken to a webpage listing the items they will purchase from you.

&lt;form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="business" value="fangear@fangear.ws"&gt;
&lt;input name="submit" type="image" src="FanGearImages/images/SubPagesCartButton.gif" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!" width="58" height="31" border="0"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;

When you look over the code, you realize that it can not be used with dynamically created pages. The code works if you physically placed a button for each item, i.e. . . . not dynamically created page.

How can I have the PayPal generated button notice what the dynamiclly selected product is so that when a customer adds it to his or her cart, it is the correct product??????????

Right now, no matter what item I select, the button places what I have manually typed in to it's hidden fields, . . . can that info be creatred dynamically?

any help.
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