Help with Paypal Button Maker

[handcoded]

Hi

I'm trying to setup PBM but am a bit confused by the terminology used.
I have a few products I would like to sell and wondered if someone could give me a run down as to how to setup the module correctly.

Some screenshots of a working setup would be a real help.

I'm in the UK by the way.

Thanks

[JeremyBASS]

You can thank Paypal for the terminology ... I'll see if I can take a screen shot but.. this is what you can do, you can set up a button one by one, with the items price and everything in the button and then use the tag inline.. or you can add smarty to the button fields in the admin area to handle more than one item.. BTW I have not gotten to the ipn or the cart yet.  Hope that helps for now.. Cheers -Jeremy

[handcoded]

Hi

I'm struggling with the idea of having 1 buy it now button for multiple products with different prices and names. How would this work when each button has to have a unique alias.

Also do I have to fill in the login info for the Sandbox accounts or is Sandbox="true" enough for testing.

I'm puzzled. 

[JeremyBASS]

Hi

I'm struggling with the idea of having 1 buy it now button for multiple products with different prices and names. How would this work when each button has to have a unique alias.

Also do I have to fill in the login info for the Sandbox accounts or is Sandbox="true" enough for testing.

I'm puzzled.  ???

Sorry the docs on that mod is not the best... Yes you have to log in to the sandbox directly atm.. but for it to work with the sandbox you don't need to use Sandbox="true" , that is for a one by one test, in the option you can trun it on for all of them...


On the one button, what you do is this, you make a button and put {$price_var} in the price area of the module when creating the button, then you put this on you page next to the item...

{assign var=price_var value='9.99'}
{cms_module module=PayPalButtonMaker Mode="default" Btn="AuthorDonate"}


Now you can have that one button work for many items (you need to turn smarty processing on in the button defaults)

Again sorry about the docs there, both the module needs some updates and more in on the docs, It's just another module that is on my time and is not funded so it's slow going... Hope that clears things up.. Cheers -jeremy

[handcoded]

Okay that is starting to make sense now. I would have never figured that out so $var_desc for the product name would do the same ?

I am assuming that item number would be a SKU or similar.

Thanks for the explanation 

[JeremyBASS]

Yup.. I made sure that all the field could/should take a smart var...

[handcoded]

Last question for now is do the var have to be on seperate lines or is there a way of adding more than 1 ie

{assign var=price_var value='9.99' & var=desc_var value='my product'}

Thanks

[JeremyBASS]

nope sorry I wish.. it'd have to be

{assign var=price_var value='9.99'}
{assign var=desc_var value='my product'}


see the deal was that I wanto to make quick buy buttons for products when I added the smarty stuff.. so.. I'd just put the PPBM tag in the products templates and the {$entry->price} ect in the button's feilds so no need for the assigns litering the area..

[handcoded]

Okay I don't suppose it matters and this will make it fairly easy for my end user to make changes etc. I'll add solved to this thread once I'm setup and everything is working fine. Hopefully this thread if nothing else will help others.

regards,
Richard