如何使用PHP中的IPN（即时付款通知）在Paypal中配置定期付款

Question

Hi i have built a site in which user subscribe for a course pay through paypal on monthly basis, now the user will have to pay each and every month as long as he/she cancel the subscription, for this the user will have to pay recursively in paypal at the end of each month, now i know simple payment method in paypal but don't have any idea for recursive payment in paypal , what type of account should i create in paypal and also what should be the form hidden value etc.Please provide me code base solution so that i can takle the problem.

Answer 1

You can use Websites Payment Standard to do recurring billing with a standard IPN file to handle the callback. It works just like a normal PayPal purchase, but with extra fields in the HTML form and maybe the callback post string. Here's some HTML code to get you started.

http://ccaples.com/index.php/wps/subscription

http://ccaples.com/index.php/misc/ipn-and-databases/ipn-string-examples