Help with IPN/download delivery script

Hi all,

I think I may be jumping in at the deep end here, but it’s out of necessity rather than anything else.

I’m using this script from http://www.minisitegallery.com/blog/simple-ipn.html

The script generates a Paypal button, takes a customer to paypal and then uses IPN to generate a Thank You page, and a unique download page for the customer to download their file from. It also generates an email containing a link to the download page.

The problem I am having is that, after the customer returns to the Thank You page (after completing the payment process successfully), the script doesn’t seem to be generating the download page and it isn’t sending out an email with the unique link to download.

I’m not sure precisely what you’d need to see form the script to help me out with this problem. I am not asking for anyone to fix it for me, merely to help me problem solve why it isn’t working as intended. I am totally new to PhP so this is going over my head so far, but I’m here to learn as much as get help fixing the problem (and I intend to stick around; this issue has encouraged me to actually learn PhP rather than always end up in the situation I’m in now).

Thanks in advance for any help offered.

Well, from what I see on the site, you just upload the script file (.php file) to your site.
Edit the settings.php inside the script to point at your paypal info and add product info.
(and a few things like options.)
Then, add one link or button for the BUY-NOW that sends it to the script.

Have you edited the settings.php to handle all of these?
Have you copied the script and new settings.php file to the live server for testing?
Is the send confirm-email option set in the settings.php file?

Let us know about these and perhaps we can help…

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