Nothing fancy, just a personal log with a built in search function so I can recall what is easily forgotten.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Android: Command Line SQLite
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Subscription Button for PayPal
Apparently, the subscription HTML cannot pass all the custom fields to the confirmation emails. One can use item-name and Invoice Number to hold user entered text; however, the invoice number must be unique and there will be problems if it is not.
See the PayPal documentation
Saturday, September 27, 2014
PayPal - "Problems with seller's site..."
I produced a classic PayPal button with a drop down menu for pricing options. All my tests took me to PayPal.
My end user reported receiving "Problems with seller's site".
I created a new button and unchecked the hosted at PayPal option in step 2.
The problem seem to be solved, but I needed to know why both buttons worked for me and not the end user.
I found that recreating the button as not hosted at PayPal was not the correct solution.
The correct solution was to remove the special characters in one of the menu options, which read "Individual (Ltd. Qty).".
Lesson: do not use special characters in the labels for any pricing option.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Create a Pay Pal Sandbox Button
In order to create a test PayPal "Buy Now" button, follow these steps.
https://www.paypal.com
https://www.developer.paypal.com
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com
www.sandbox.paypal.com/c2/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_button-management
I suppose I can make a cURL or a Python script to do all this.

