Posted by Stefan Rybacki on 11/03/05 11:44

Graeme wrote:
> "Stefan Rybacki" <stefan.rybacki@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:3sq68aFoeevsU1@individual.net...
> wrote thus:
>
>
>>I guess its not that good to use the emails for such a purpose
>>(what if paypal changes its email template and so on?).
>
>
> Hi Stefan
>
> I did think of this but again (incorrectly so it would seem)
> thought that any fix would be a relatively simple affair.
>
>
>>I would suggest to use the paypal api directly, but I'm not sure
>>whether there are functions to retrieve made payments with this
>>api but I guess there are.
>
>
> Can anybody post any information about the PayPal API? I didn't
> even know that such a thing existed until recently i.e. long after
> the work had began to do this in PHP.
>

After a very hasty look over the API documentation (Steve provided
the url for those who didn't find it), I guess you could use a combination of
transactionsearch api and gettransactiondetails api.
You could use any programming language you want but there are existing wrappers for the
used soap protocol for java, php and .net so it would be easier to use some of them.

Regards
Stefan

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