Paypal Intergration ?

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I know many ppl have probably seen this kind of request before, but here it is again im sorry.

I have been thinking lately about how to intergrate paypal with vbulletin registration (not expiration of membership - yet!)

Possible have the exit page of paypal once the user has paid point to say preregister.php, in this script the user would enter their email address and click on a submit button, the script would then send a code to this email address (something like the Current activation code, The user will have to enter this into the register script along with their other details.

I realise many ppl would be saying to themsleves "but the user could just go back to "preregister.php" and get a new code. this is true, but wot about if we have something like a referer check.
I.e if the user neve came from "www.paypal.com" then he gets redirected to a page of ur choice. something along the lines of


<?php
$ref_domain = getenv('HTTP_REFERER');
$ref_domain = parse_url($ref_domain);

if ($ref_domain['host'] == "www.paypal.com")
etc...


Then the mail script follows.

The code that is sent could/will be active for 24 hrs then deleted from the database.

Any comments? Opinions are welcome and im open for critisicism.

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anyone think this will work?

[Scott MacVicar]

I currently have a subscription integration for vBulletin.org via paypal and it integrates without any bother.

Once the user registers they can go to subscribe.php, it shows the types of subscriptions, mainly length and cost. Once they click subscribe and go through the paypal details, the Instant Payment Notification on paypal comes into effect and sends details to the paypal script and it then moves them into the appropriate usergroup based on the length and cost of the subscription.

Unfortunately it was done for a private customer so you'd have to contact me for a price, I accept paypal for payment.