PayPal has finally instituted a back-end notification of authorized purchases, so you don't have to do it manually, or go through hoops to parse out your email.

I'm going to take a couple of days diversion into creating a module compatible with Links SQL, and specifically the Logo/Graphic mod.

This way, you'll be able to set up the mod and charge for the logo space from the start. Depending on how the interface really works, and how industrious I feel, the following features may be added:

- recurring billing
- notification of expired/expiring logo space
- different fees per category
- trial period -- 30 days free logo -- for example

Obviously, this requires a logged in user, and I'm not even going to attempt it without one. I feel strongly the days of fully open systems are gone, and that it's not too much to ask a user for their name and email address and to pick a password before posting a link or uploading or interacting with a site. It makes things a _lot_ easier from the programmer point of view as well.

Hopefully, Links SQL 2.1 will be out at the same time, and I'll be able to migrate the whole system over to the "filetype" system, and be done with this once and for all :)


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Wow, that could be very good news, potentially. Is there a URL that describes that new feature? I haven't seen any such announcement, and don't see it on their site...

On a loosely connected note, people might want to check out a post I made in a different forum about spam emails being disguised as PayPal payment notifcations:

http://www.aota.net/...s=&threadid=8917

Dan

Yes, it's on their site, in the Web Accept manual. You have to get the PDF, and the process, and sample scripts are at the end, starting about page 31.

Alex pointed out it may need Net::SSL since it has to make an HTTPS request of their server. Your server doesn't have to be SSL, they send you a key, you send it back securely, and if it matches, then they "ok" the data you got in the first place. Only one part of the link has to be secure, and they chose the most logical one.

I'm still working on it, so much to do.... but it's all about ready. Fitting this in to the logo wasn't the hardest part... But, I won't know til others try to run it. All this depends on the next version of links, though, any day :)

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Thanks, I found it after a bit of looking around. In the version I downloaded (5.0), the relevant section starts on page 49, for those not dying to read through an extra 18 pages of the PayPal manual. I think the following URL will lead straight to the manual:

https://www.paypal.com/html/wa_manual_v5.0.pdf

Dan