add PayPal cart

[zdvdla]

I built a site using flash and the client now wants me to add a shopping cart.
The instructions seem fairly straight forward but I dont know how to apply it to this site PayPal gives you the code, says to paste in into your page. Should I be using DW to do this? The code is HTML but Im not sure where to paste it.
I have a scrolling tile list that is programmed to listen for a CLICK and display a larger picture of the item and a brief description of it.
I am thinking that I can pull the name from the SOURCE clicked in the tile list and have a handler place the correct btn on the page.
I haven't come across anything on the web that tells me how to place HTML directly into a flash doc.
I could just export the swf and bring it into DW, but I really want to know that I did this all in Flash.
Any ideas?
Thanks...

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Use LoadVars Class to post variables to PayPal server.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[zdvdla]

can you give me any more details on how?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

PayPal "Add to Cart" HTML looks like this:

<form target="paypal" action="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"[/URL] method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="name@yourbusiness.com">
...

In Flash terms, this would be translated into something like:

LoadVarsInstance["cmd"] = "_cart";
LoadVarsInstance["business"] = "name@yourbusiness.com";
...
LoadVarsInstance.send("[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr",[/URL] "_blank", "POST");

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[zdvdla]

ok..I get some of it...how do you link that to the button?
Or do you do that separately with another var?
Would I need to have separate code for each btn?
Why the brackets?
LoadVarsInstance["business"]
set up for an array?

thanks Ken..I know this is alot...

 

[kennethkawamoto]

On button click create a LoadVars instance, populate with variables, then send them to PayPal.

Each item you selling needs different set of variables (such as product name, price, etc.) You can create a button for each item, or one button with radio button/dropdown menu to select an item - it's up to you.

[tt]LoadVarsInstance["business"][/tt]

... is same as ...

[tt]LoadVarsInstance.business[/tt]

basically creating a property in the LoadVars instance dynamically.

Go to PayPal and read developer's guide. You'll need to know what you're doing...!

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk