"Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition"
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You implemented similar changes to product.php and product.tpl, to create the Add to Cart buttons of the product details pages. To see what happens when one of these buttons is clicked, we used the Firefox LiveHTTPHeaders plug-in. We highlighted, in Figure 9-5, the URL loaded when the button was clicked and the URL the request was 302 redirected to. CHAPTER 9 ?– RECEIVING PAYMENTS USING PAYPAL 263 Figure 9-5. Loading the PayPal shopping cart After a customer makes a payment on the web site, an e-mail notification is sent to the e-mail address registered on PayPal and also to the customer. Your PayPal account will reflect the payment, and you can view the transaction information in your account history or as a part of the history transaction log. After PayPal confirms the payment, you can ship the products to your customer. If you decide to use PayPal for your own web site, make sure you learn about all of its features. For example, you can teach PayPal to automatically calculate shipping costs and tax for each order. Using the PayPal Single Item Purchases Feature Single Item Purchases is a PayPal feature that allows you to send the visitor directly to a payment page instead of the PayPal shopping cart. The PayPal shopping cart will become useless in Chapter 12, where you??™ll create your own shopping cart.