Comments on: Creating a paypal button for Flex 2 http://www.digital-motion.net/2007/06/10/creating-a-paypal-button-for-flex-2/ Digital Media Production Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: levi http://www.digital-motion.net/2007/06/10/creating-a-paypal-button-for-flex-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5610 levi Mon, 26 May 2008 12:36:37 +0000 http://www.digital-motion.net/2007/06/10/creating-a-paypal-button-for-flex-2/#comment-5610 whats up? well if you use the URLRequest, and URLVariables functions you can send the data to paypal. then using the externalinterface call, you can accept the data from paypal on the customers return, getting all of the data back such as name, location, paypal_id, ect.. then send the data into flex using the externalInterface.addcallback function to call a flex function to recieve the data. just a little javascript to recognise when paypal is attempting to send the data, pass the data onto flex and you have yourself a working io with paypal. this is nice so you dont have to use any backend interfaces to call flex (like amfphp or something) this will allow you to notify your app that the user is finished, you can even include some code to keep sessions so they dont loose all their data in the interim. i will be posting the full code to my site once its finished. whats up?
well if you use the URLRequest, and URLVariables functions you can send the data to paypal.
then using the externalinterface call, you can accept the data from paypal on the customers return, getting all of the data back such as name, location, paypal_id, ect..

then send the data into flex using the externalInterface.addcallback function to call a flex function to recieve the data.

just a little javascript to recognise when paypal is attempting to send the data, pass the data onto flex and you have yourself a working io with paypal.

this is nice so you dont have to use any backend interfaces to call flex (like amfphp or something) this will allow you to notify your app that the user is finished, you can even include some code to keep sessions so they dont loose all their data in the interim.

i will be posting the full code to my site once its finished.

]]> By: Joe Shell http://www.digital-motion.net/2007/06/10/creating-a-paypal-button-for-flex-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5338 Joe Shell Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:43:31 +0000 http://www.digital-motion.net/2007/06/10/creating-a-paypal-button-for-flex-2/#comment-5338 Hi there, Any chance of getting the source on that? Cheers, Joe Hi there,

Any chance of getting the source on that?

Cheers,

Joe

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