Olav, the mechanism to be used is PayPal IPN [1]. It needs a handler/listener script that PayPal calls when certain events occur.
See the code examples on PayPal's site. Regards, Claus [1] https://www.paypal.com/ipn On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:38 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > I'd like to automate adding the names to the Friends of GNOME page. > > (There's a lot of other thing about the process that I'd like to > > automate as well, if someone would like to help figure out how best to > > do that.) > > I've read attached, but it doesn't really go into detail. Yes, no > problem to have a database. What we're more concerned with is usage of > PHP. That is generally disliked. > > Especially mention of limited PHP experience.. then I fear the PHP > script won't take security enough into account. > > But the biggest thing which is lacking: How does www.gnome.org/friends/ > and Paypal connect? Intended as cronjob, called from Paypal when someone > makes a donation, something else? Really, the database part is the most > uninteresting bit. > > > I'm cc'ing a whole conversation here for background. > > Who uses that broken mailclient. This was very difficult to read. I've > fixed all the wrapping errors. > > > Basically, when someone makes a donation via paypal, we need to grab > > the "options" and if they opted to be recognized, we need to add their > > name to the list of donors. > > > > I can open a bugzilla request too but felt like I needed more info to > > be more concrete ... > > I do not understand at which stage the data is supposed to be > transferred from Paypal to www.gnome.org/friends/ > > Leaving the rest quoted as to make it easier for others to read. _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
