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eskymo
Feb '08

Hi there



I want to know what you mean by the following:



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Following parameters will be posted to this page using GET method. If you don't want to use these, they will be ignored.



* payer_email (Buyer's email address)

* first_name (Buyer's first name)

* last_name (Buyer's last name)

* txn_id (Transaction ID)

* payment_status (Will always be Completed unless you have requested us to process the sales even for pending payments, in which case this will be Pending)

* custom (Custom variable [if you had appended one to the purchase button's URL])

* auction_buyer_id (If this was an eBay listing)



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Does that mean it happens automaitcally - or do I need to code something into the HTML of my thankyou page to get the information displayed? The information isn't very clear.

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dhacker
Feb '08

Eskymo - you'll need to do some web programming to make this happen. Basically speaking, e-Junkie will send this information to a URL you specify using the "GET" structure (fascinatingly geeky article here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html).



Basically speaking, you'll have to be able to decode that information from a URL string and then present it to the user as you see fit.



If that description makes sense then it's a fairly easy task - if it doesn't make sense then it's a fairly difficult task.

eskymo
Feb '08

thanks for explaining that better...my friend now decided he likes the simplicity of just a bit of simple text on his thanks page and so thankfully I don't need to try and figure how to get all the info onto the page.



Thanks

E

2 years later
cpol
Feb '11

Hi Dhacker



Is there any way to append more information to the HTML. Specifically, I need to know the item name. When a customer gets redirected to my thank you page, I want to do something different depending on what item the customer purchased.



I was thinking about adding a custom var to my button but that isn't secure. Anyone could simply append the custom var to their url and get a different version of my product.



Any ideas?



Steve