Re: Softgoods payload delivery app using PayPal?

Part of the problem with this is that there's no 'shopping' functionality - people will only be able to buy 1 thing at a time. You could have the email forwarded to a procmail recipe which sends the email contents to a PHP script for processing. Kind of overkill, but it seems it would be the only way to integrate this with PHP in an automated fashion. Thomas David Kehoe wrote: > Has anyone written an e-commerce application that enables customers to pay > using PayPal, and then automatically e-mails a file (text, photo, MP3, etc.) > to the customer? > > I want to use PayPal because it has zero transaction fees. Wells Fargo > charges me up to 12% for small credit card transactions. > > PayPal eliminates the need for a secure website. All credit card processing > is done on PayPal's website. > > PayPal sends an e-mail to the seller saying, "joe123@aol.com has paid you $3 > and attached this note: 'I want gilliananderson.jpg.'" All I have to do is > write a PHP app that parses the e-mail into > "joe123@aol.com, $1, gilliananderson.jpg" and then sends out the photo to > that address. > > A zillion people would sell softgoods on their websites if there was a > simple, cheap e-commerce application. By transferring functions to PayPal, > the e-commerce app becomes small and simple. > > Comments? Anyone want to develop it with me? Or am I re-inventing a wheel? > -- > Thomas David Kehoe Casa Futura Technologies > http://www.FriendshipCenter.com Stuttering Science & > Therapy Website > The free penpals database for > http://www.fluencydevices.com > individuals with disabilities. (888) FLU-ENCY > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961