无法在返回网址中获得paypal post pramenters

Question

I have one code for passing some custom variables to PayPal and these were collected in the return page, but when trying to get these values it is not working

I have a PayPal form like this :

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="image" src="submit.png" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"/>
<input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="custom" value="IP"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"/>
<input type="hidden" name="business" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="page_style" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="index.php?action=success"/>
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="index.php?action=ipn"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cn" value="Additional Information"/>
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="AUD"/>
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-ShopCartBF"/>
</form>

I am successfully returning to the URL after payment. and there I am just trying to print the POST Variable for now and It is not giving me any values.I have tried by both enabling and disabling 'auto return'. In both case I don't get values. Please help me, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The "notify_url" will be contacted by paypal asynchronously (directly), without you having anything to do with this transaction. So you will never see in your browser any results whatsoever. You should use some kind of logging in your script to see what is actually being sent. Check your web server's access log to see if paypal is actually contacting your script (and make sure it's not "localhost" you're trying from)