PayPal Payments Integration Tutorial Using PHP & IPN & PHPMailer

[@SenaidBacinovic]

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[@soukainasouka641]

hello ,how to make a subscription in paypal using php

[@BeautySeven]

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[@techbydani9624]

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[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you!

[@TheD2D21]

Key times in video: HTML/CSS framework and page 0:00 PayPal Button (Find and Create): 10:02 PayPal Button Take Notice! of these details 11:43 PayPal Button Configure IPN Listener Test! (simulator) 14:50 Code the listener File START 18:39 - 25:18 END (That VERIFIED resonse is the beginning of your payment handler or what you want to do with it) Do something once VERIFIED like Get the HTML variable list possible in POST 27:51 Some troubleshooting recommendations and techniques 33:14-34:53 END of practicality. Rest of the video is how to do something with a VERIFIED response and that is sending an e-mail to a customer or payer. Enjoy!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

WOW!! Thank you so much for writing this outline!

[@xeroks646]

You are Amazing, I was making a project and I was worrying about the paypal payment system but you saved my ass. Thanks a lot you got +1 subscriber

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you so much, glad I could help! :)

[@tomasrezende6416]

Great video! I was having a lot of problems with paypal IPN especially because every video about the topic don't explain everything. By watching this video I was finally able to make my IPN work. Thank you!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Awesome, glad I could help. :D

[@aalh0201]

As soon as I saw your face in the thumbnail I knew all my questions would be answered. Thank you for another great video.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

You are so welcome!

[@applianceassistant]

I've been working on a subscription-based website for more than a year and was very intimidated by this portion of the project... Still working on getting this thing up and running but your video has been a big help! Thank you!

[@austinallen3110]

Omg this music is so good, I loved being able to listen to it on loop for 42 minutes.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

I know it can be way better. Do you have any suggestion? :)

[@austinallen3110]

I'm just being an arse, it's not so loud that it's a distraction

[@SenaidBacinovic]

haha, ok! :)

[@jordh2051]

¡Awesome!, you won a new suscriber, i have never ever comment a video, this is my first comment :)

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Damn, thank you so much!

[@jordh2051]

@@SenaidBacinovic your welcome!... but i have a question... If i have the products in a database?, its good to change in form of button the price? with and echo of the price..?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

@@jordh2051 Yes, but make sure that inside listener you verify that price is correct.

[@ziguatv9190]

Thanks much sir, your tutorials has taken me to another level in web based apps developments!!!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you!

[@MrPherez]

Best tuitorial on youtube, consider being a teacher alot of programmes can learn easily from you.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you!

[@rohansaand2023]

I had also been waiting for this video great job bro!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you! Glad I could help! :D

[@valueniche]

Great tutorial on IPN setup. Thanks.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tbdkll4218]

For people who are having trouble with the test.txt file, first create the file in the server and set read/write permissions by all.

[@axelmaximilianochavez6113]

Awesome your tutorial ... I really like how you work , just I have a question how can I make the botton with different price, I meand different products so different number to send to paypal for to pay... Thank you so much.

[@leevihalme4300]

Hi, your tutorial is good and very well explained, but there is one thing: 1) When the payment_date variable has + symbol for example it would be: Fri Aug 19 2016 09:25:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time) IT WILL NOT WORK. The response is always invalid. (Because of the + symbol) 2) When there's äöå or any special characters in the name or in the email address variable IT WILL NOT WORK. The response is always invalid. I would like an update video on how you can avoid these errors :)

[@ismhdez]

please I really need it....

[@RobertoPorpora]

is 1) a bug of the sandbox IPN? or there is something wrong in the curl data transfer? I managed to do a successfully verified IPN simulation by leaving blank the payment date, but will it work outside of the sandbox?

[@ceo.ordevs]

Nice video. I have implemented paypal payment gateway learned from here.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Awesome, glad I could help.

[@aaronrs2002]

For the last couple months it looks as if everyone has gotten "INVALID", regardless that the sandbox saying: "IPN was sent and the handshake was verified". This issue is all over different forums. Is there another way to get this done?

[@jegar1332]

Thank you for the detailed explanation of papal integration

[@SenaidBacinovic]

You are welcome!

[@navirosas5968]

Great Jobe Man, you are awesome 🤟🏼

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you :D

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

At 12:05, all of those options are no longer there in paypal. How can we do a link that will take them to a success or cancel page? thanks!

[@AmjustJos]

Great tutorial Senaid!! I was first bit confused, but after watching it back on the parts, what confused me. It made sense for me :D

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Jos Den Hertog Amazing, glad I could help. :)

[@AmjustJos]

Ohh btw, you need to upgrade your paypal account, to business paypal account for this.

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

Hi1.... Did you manage to get this working?

[@gustocoder8900]

Good video, thanks. I have subscribed.

[@omerdoron1110]

Just what I was looking for. thanks!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you :)

[@linuxmq3945]

Hi Bego, I really enjoyed your tutorial. Very clear and you go through each step, which is great for me. I noticed that you put condition if $paymentStatus == "Confirmed". Isn't the value you are looking for to be "Completed"? It is how it comes in the text.txt output. Thank you.

[@linuxmq3945]

Hi, I found that you got the mistake further in the process. I had also issue with naming. from PayPal it had mc_gross_1 instead of mc_gross!

[@nikolaskomodromos2924]

i create the button as you do but when i click it at 14:07 as you do nothing happen. the only different think that i do was that i left empty the Add advanced variables because i didnt understand what that is. Can anyone help me please???

[@JohnOkelloh]

Great tutorial sir

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you :)

[@sanabintidrees1266]

Best Tutorial ..great work..

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you :)

[@misfinEM]

Hello. Thank you for the video, you explain it very good for a newbie like me to understand too. Can you tell me if it is possible to do the same but instead of attach a complete file, i woul like to send a specific data which saved in an Excel? Like 1 row to 1 person, 2nd row to another etc. If it is, do you have a tip what should i search for? Thank you!

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

is the word verified case sensitive at line 17? I also thought that your foreach loop should have a {} but it doesn't...

[@daxcor]

What is the difference between webhooks and IPN? the IPN is so much simpler to use. Why when you created the button, you didn't have to use your client_id token? When you use the bottons that you have created, are the standard webhooks also sent if they are configured to do so? Can you have both IPN and webhooks happen at the same time?

[@haksenguz]

Thank you for making a great tutorial! I have a question. If I have more than 1000 items, do I have to make buttons for each item? Or there is another way to do so? Thank you for your answer!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

In your case, most likely the best solution would be to build some sort of shopping-cart system.

[@hasanjuraev9800]

@@SenaidBacinovic thank you

[@adubivictor823]

Senaid, you are such a greate Tutor! i love your job, Please ride on master.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you :)

[@1111andrews]

This is a wonderful tutorial. You did a great job, but I had a lot of trouble with this statement: if ($response == "VERIFIED")...I had to first store $response in another variable and then do the comparison. Must have something to do with the order of the if statement. This is what I had to do: $pos = $response; if ($pos !== false) { Can you comment? Thanks...Andrea

[@SenaidBacinovic]

This video has been recorded a long time ago, so it can happen that PayPal's response has been changed. Definitely check what you get and write the code based on that.

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

in the notify url.. can you use http or must it be https?

[@shahzaib_717]

I have one question in this video we create one button for one product and set the price on paypal according to product but in live website where thousands of products how to handle that scenario is we have to create button for each product?

[@albertpino4406]

Hi, how could i create a paypal checkout page that only shows the credit cards option as primary choice with the PayPal API?

[@TheBlackNight971]

*QUESTION* What if i want send with POST method some variables to listener? Example in dates.php you chose 2 dates. After send to listener and put, with query, dates in database.

[@hiichbinflo9552]

Love your Tutorials, but you have a idea how the buyer can give me his adress before purchusing? Because wen he buy somethink now i dont no were i have to send the Product?

[@milesmontego7417]

hey i admire your work you are a true mentor please do you have a video on shopping card

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you, appreciate the feedback. At the moment I don't have, but will publish one. :)

[@milesmontego7417]

okay sir thanks you are the best

[@ザカリア-l8d]

Amazing tuto. Thanks a lot!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you :)

[@codevikings4269]

why does my file_puts - statement doesn work after all the curl statements but before that it does... any idea what could be wrong?

[@nurmaisarahzaini1228]

Thank you sir for great video. If i using localhost, the ipn will recognise ?

[@mrmr6581]

you said that it cannot be done on localhost. But can it be done on an apache virtualhost that is on a centos7 on oracle virtual machine. Because my hostgator host doesnot let me 777 the site folder, to get listener.php to create the test.txt. Or am Im doing it wrong?

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

This is very interesting but where did you get test.txt from? Do you need the paypal button to be uploaded for this to work because my server won't allow me to upload it...I also noticed that you didn't include a {} after the foreach()... don't you need those? I would appreciate if someone could assist me here...

[@samsar7]

if i have have thousands of products in my website, then i will have to create lots of buttons.is there any other way that i can do shortly ? for example i want to change the price(value) of the buynow button within my page using php.

[@justgonegaming307]

Does this still work in 2019? Where do you get that form to start typing php codes? Thanks.

[@ramkishoryadav1862]

nice tutorial sir,please make same payment process with coin payment gateway.

[@classicandsacrum8659]

Thank you very much!! It's working!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you !

[@sumit123ization]

its a great help ,thank you.But i have a question that when the mail be sent?and also tell me that can we sent all status that happen in the payment?

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

Hello! I tried to add a redirect in my listener.php but it is not redirecting me to another page. Basically, once the user has made a purchased, I would like to send the user to another page where an email will be sent...

[@andrisskutans]

Thanks for video tutorial. But now thinking...if instead of sending an email , i want in my webpage to show some random result to the payer...? Payer, enters some words (for example 100 words in textarea), to check if the words exists in my database. I show payment button. Payer pays. Listener receives and checks Paypal response. .... and here i can not understand how to continue to process entered (textarea) data... Any ideas?

[@renzchleroxino8499]

Do you have tutorial on multiple items at checkout with paypal?

[@randomtip8386]

TYUYY S MUCHH!!!

[@ocoolsanni2803]

Just foundyourchanneland after 2 tutorial I just subscribedn hit notifications.Great tutorials Sir. I have a request though about paypal payments. A tutorial on Paypal Implicit payment. No need to add IPN to it coz i've understood i there. Thanks

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you, I will create one!

[@Leonquenix]

Thanks, bro. That really helped me

[@SenaidBacinovic]

My pleasure, thank you :)

[@TheIsuruudara]

Thank you for the video! can you make tutorial for submit form with paypal payment and received email after the payment is successful

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

Hey guys! I would appreciate if someone could reply to my question here but I tried to use the header or meta redirect tag and both can't seem to redirect the user at all. I don't know why but even using a basic command like echo ""; does not work... I can only get it to work with the include_once attribute.. Just like to know if someone has got it working...

[@rromenas]

Hi. Do you know how to implement buy now button for thousands of products at once?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

It all depends how entire system is created, but it's always possible to came up with some solution and make it happen.

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

I think i understand now that you need a business account but when testing this at 25.38, must you make a real purchase for this simulator to work? I wouldn't like to go ahead with this if this is the case....I am also having a problem when uploading paypal.php to my server.. says it contain a banned keyword.... I need to ask my host...

[@rei8306]

bro how if its in the cart and i want to save the ordered lists into a sql db after the payment

[@MonirulIslam-sg7oh]

Nice, would you please make paypal check out with dynamic price for ecommerce ?

[@alktab8993]

Hi my friend why ipn restores me an empty matrix error! I have tried on the local server not only working online but do not know the reason for not liking I will put you my code!!

[@sharvai937]

Will my website need PCI-DSS compliance even if I use this method?

[@darkempire5762]

One thing . Can i use it in real scenario for my website ? I just don't know if it works same like ipn simulation . Please help

[@RosalitoUdtohan_01]

Instead of puting the generated buttton code in my actual php file, I want to insert it in my mysql database. Is it possible? I searched the net and it is something that can be done but I don't know how to start.

[@omarabdelfattah]

Your'e Verry aweesoommmee dudde !!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you :)

[@omarabdelfattah]

but i had an issue and i made a post for that in your facebook groub but no one helped !! the listener.php doesn't send mail or wite in the text file and print the response

[@vapon]

Great man! Nice background music too.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

vapon thank you :)

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

Hello! I can't find that section now on paypal, i think it has changed...

[@serviceyali1087]

You're very great, but i've met a problem. I've followed all your steps, but i kept receiving 'invalid' when i sent the simulation and refreshed the page. Will you help me with that? Appreciate it.

[@essare108]

hello can you do a tutorial for multiple IPNs in one paypal account ( people normally have > 1 website with one paypal account)

[@juanbilardi]

Great tutorial keep up the good work! Could you create one about recurring payments and subscription status check?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Thank you. That's a good idea, will do!

[@alexwilk6966]

I would love this too!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Will have it soon!

[@kyrtech3662]

Hi! This is a great tutorial for me. I just want to ask if this API services has a 3-D secure? Can I use this without 3-D secure? Secondly, is this API safe from scams and frauds? Hopefully you will answer my question. Thank you!

[@Jonasgamertv]

24:32 My listener always says "This page doesn't work"....

[@caiosobreiro6232]

How would i implement this but with variable pricing? e.g: getting the price from a php variable. is it possible? Great video!

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Yes, it's possible. All you need to do is to just display the value from that variable inside the PayPal form.

[@marciocarvalho6749]

i im having a problem that instead of the information return in POST its returning GET i dont know how to change it

[@Babak_Ahari]

I have also the same problem.:(

[@haidaralikhan1707]

How I can convert this code to wordpress plugin

[@viditvivo-account5878]

Hi. I have followed the same bt when i send an ipn by ipn simulator to my listener. I am receiving nothing. The test.txt file is not generating in my case . Plz help me . I am stuck from very long over this .. I really need help Regards

[@i-sukanta]

I am getting "IPN was not sent, and the handshake was not verified. Review your information" - i have a test vps - LAMP installed.. What is wrong? There is no explicit point out of issue. Also, i use your codes. I put all the codes in root dir of the vps. Please help.

[@pianoLee-sx9dx]

why do we set the verifyhost and verify peer to 0? isn't it better to set it to 1?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

It is, but for some servers it will fail and then it will confuse most beginners. It is not that much important that we need to treat it as must.

[@remanentecatolico]

Is it mandatory to create a button? how could I manage code for dynamic price?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

It is not a mandatory. In the video when I create a button, I said that it's possible to use protected/not-protected version of the button. Just use not-protected, and you will be able to manually put your price, logo etc.

[@nakulsarkar_in]

so good helpful video....but background music noisy

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you :)

[@mihaivancsa7815]

hei, you need to have your project on a server or having it on localhost with wamp is a problem? Can please anyone answer Thanks !

[@SenaidBacinovic]

For real production, it is a problem.

[@samjohn6940]

Do we need to do this for a donation button as well?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

I never did it, but I think you will have to, the process is quite same.

[@cubevisltd8455]

Hi! I got an issue :( In listener.php I got sql query to dabase that changes type of subscription (just text: from standard to ext. gold). The problem is that this query doesn't see $_SESSION['id] which is session variable for my documents. So my question is how to solve this? How to give information about this variable in this document when only PayPal is integrating with this file?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Yes, session will not work in that case. What you can do is for example that on the listener URL you pass the id, like this: listener.php?id=XXX So, when PayPal send the data to that URL, you will have id in the $_GET. Also, another method could be sending the data through hidden inputs in the PayPal form.

[@ザカリア-l8d]

I just tried it. I get the following error while sending IPN: "IPN was not sent, and the handshake was not verified. Review your information." . What is interesting is that everything seems to be working fine. listener.php is sending emails and the values of : $response is = "VERIFIED" and $_POST['receiver_email'] is showing the right email address...I wonder what could be the problem?

[@muktarsaliu640]

Did you use wordpress

[@maciejwisniewski5026]

*Is there any way to configure the PayPal button? I want to create cart script and the price will change.*

[@bobbydharma]

yeah you can do that in paypal during creation of a button

[@yomstars]

Hi Senaid. Do you have any tutorials or codes for IPN in classic ASP. I have tried for days and no joy what so ever. Trying with the IPN listerner simulation works but can't get it to work when I submit my form. Thanks.

[@SenaidBacinovic]

I am sorry, but I don't have in ASP.

[@yomstars]

Not to worry and thanks for your reply.

[@kikikoko4529]

Thank you sir, you are amazing.but i have a qs ! How i can buy multi item (many buy Buttons)

[@SenaidBacinovic]

That is very hard to be answered in the one comment, and soon I am going to release video tutorials where I will show how to create entire shopping cart system, which is exactly what you're looking for. So, make sure you're subscribed so you won't miss it. :)

[@kikikoko4529]

Coding Passive Income i'm waiting hero :)

[@SenaidBacinovic]

thank you :)

[@kamran2294]

Hi, can you kindly explain: How can I set up the IPN Simulator for multiple products with different prices and name?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Do you want to use the same IPN file or multiple files?

[@kamran2294]

Actually, I would like to understand both. Thanks,

[@kamran2294]

Follow up, any answer regarding my question?

[@bibash3128]

Hello , paypal ipn simulator works but does not work in real transaction. Do you have the solution?

[@thegreattober]

Everything works perfectly but we want it to be in sandbox mode and for some reason it is using live payments. Any tips?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Check the form action URL that you're using, make sure it is using sandbox.

[@shahzaib_717]

you are dedicated Thanks :)

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Yes :)

[@tharinduvishal4929]

what is the problem if reserve this Alart "IPN was not sent, and the handshake was not verified. Review your information."

[@girishv8829]

Please do a video on how to send mail daily (date wise)

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Soon I will have tutorials about CRON jobs and how to use those to execute PHP scripts. :)

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Soon I will have tutorials about CRON jobs and how to use those to execute PHP scripts. :)

[@nepalcodetv6298]

keep it up great tutorial

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Simple Tutorials thank you :)

[@LayaBinil]

Hi I have done a testing with your code and now in my paypal dashboard it is showing that 67 dollars are transacted ..Can you tell me what really happens.does my original amount really loses?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Yes, it loses if you're testing in the sandbox, because that is not real money.

[@LayaBinil]

Did u get the money then?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Yes, when the form is live on my website and people purchase something from me.

[@LayaBinil]

Actually am confuse..that means you will get 67 dollars ?How can I stop the real transaction to you then?

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Hmm, no, you're not paying anything to me right now. But, I am telling you that if you decide to go to my website and purchase a course or something, in that case, I will get the money. If you use the code from this video and implement it on your website, you're the one that will make money. :)

[@CLFhama]

I have a question what if someone paid and the payment statue is pending and me putting as a condition to submitting the order to the database must be complete if(statue == complete) and the payment is pending in this case does Paypal send me a later notification with a complete statue ??

[@SenaidBacinovic]

Great question. In that case, if you want, you can also add to the statement "if (status == complete || status == pending) ..." and it will work without any problem.

[@CLFhama]

Ah Okay thank you

[@elielsistemas]

Hi, IPN Simulator aways returns Internal Server Error, do you know what?