PHP Automatic Donation with paypal.

[Brodster55]

I'm trying to get this code to work, but everytime I have it run it returns fail, even though I know they sent the money.

<?php

// read the post from PayPal system and add 'cmd'
$req = 'cmd=_notify-validate';
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
$req .= "&$key=$value";
}
// post back to PayPal system to validate
$header = "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";

$fp = fsockopen ('ssl://ipnpb.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);

// VARIBLES Sent From Paypal
$email = $_POST['payer_email']; 

if (!$fp) {
// HTTP ERROR
} else {
fputs ($fp, $header . $req);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$res = fgets ($fp, 1024);
if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) {

	echo("Pass");
	echo("<br>");
	echo($email);

}

else if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) {

	echo("Fail");

}
}
fclose ($fp);
}
?>

Does anyone know why this is returning Fail?

[Nexus435]

Have you attempted to debug anything in the paypal sandbox?

[Brodster55]

Paypal sandbox is terribly slow for me and nothing will load..

so no i haven't tried.

[zzaacckk]

How are you seeing what it prints.. because if you're manually navigating to the file ofc its going to print fail..

[Brodster55]

Its okay, I got it all working.

[Chulo Arco]

It's more recommended that you use an already-established API if you know what I mean.

[Trumple]

[QUOTE=Brodster55;36094508]Its okay, I got it all working.[/QUOTE]

what was the problem? Might help some people in future

[sciaschi]

i would like to know as well because wanted to have a donation system as well

[sciaschi]

anyone??

[zzaacckk]

[QUOTE=sciaschi;36111890]i would like to know as well because wanted to have a donation system as well[/QUOTE]

My guess is that he should have used "ssl://www.paypal.com" for the fsock instead, or it could just be that he forgot to set the notify url in his buttons.

[sciaschi]

well the ssl was correct but it still is coming up as fail

[MisterFoxx]

I would like to know this as well for my server

[nivek]

Oh gee golly need paypal donationz for my gmod server!