withinweb

Normally with PHP-SecureArea you use PayPal subscription facilities which control access to your secure area.  So when the subscription expires the access to the secure area ends.
One issue with this is that the customer has to have a PayPal account rather than purchasing through a credit / debit card.  This is because it is PayPal [...]

[Read more →]

PHP-eSeller when used with PayPal uses IPN to control the digital downloads to the customer.
If you log into PayPal you can check what IPNs have been sent out, you can check if your application has recieved and sent back a response (it should be respopnse code 200) and you can even resend an IPN.
These are [...]

[Read more →]

Error when using PHP Google Demo Code.
Apparantly this error can occur with certain web servers which have a PHP bug.
It can be fixed as explained at :
http://code.google.com/p/google-checkout-php-sample-code/issues/detail?id=37

[Read more →]

There is a facility built into PHP-eSeller that allows you to set shipping for physical goods.  This allows you to set shipping according to the overall shopping cart value.  To use this you just activate it in the admin section of PHP-eSeller.  The calculations will be applied to the physical items only.
If you do not [...]

[Read more →]

Running results from the on-line poll this month show only minor differences to last month although e-books appear to be becoming a more popular selling material and have move up the list to second place after mp3 audio files.
You can vote on the page : http://www.withinweb.com/phpeseller/index.php The survey is located on the right hand side [...]

[Read more →]

EasyPHP is an application that you install on your Windows PC and provides a development enviromment for Apache, mySQL and PHP.
You can download it from http://www.easyphp.org/
When I tried to install it on Windows 7 I came across a number of problems with Apache and mySQL.
This article
http://ryan.rawswift.com/2009/09/20/easyphp-on-64-bit-windows-7-how-to-fix-apache-and-mysql-problem/
solves these problems for me and may by usefull to [...]

[Read more →]

You can now use Google checkout as well as PayPal to sell your digital content with PHP-eSeller.
You need a Google checkout account which will identify your merchant codes.
Enter these into the admin area of PHP-eSeller and then select the tick box that enables Google checkout in the shopping cart. The shopping cart will then display [...]

[Read more →]

PHP-KeyCodes is a is used to sell software key codes or pin numbers using PayPal or Google Checkout.  The key codes are entered into the item details and when a customer makes a purchase, the first key code is removed and sent by email to the customer. This leaves the next key code ready for [...]

[Read more →]

Take the survey to tell us what type of digtial content you are selling or about to sell.
This is an on going survey – we publish the results every month to see if there are any changes in trends.

Poll from Snap Surveys …

<p style=”font-family:Arial; font-size:small” mce_style=”font-family:Arial; font-size:small”>No javascript!</p> <p><span ></span></p> <p>

[Read more →]