PayPal and Instant Notification

[AlaskanDad]

I'm trying to get PayPal to instantly update my database when a subscriber starts up or makes a monthly payment.

I've followed their sample code but it says it requires XML Parser. What is this and why do I need it?

Does anyone have any experience with PayPal's instant notification coding?

 

[RufusJones]

Just stick PayPal's sample ASP XMLHTTP code onto your site and have their Instant Payment Notification point to that page.

To handle users' subscriptions/contact info insertion, I created a form that is referenced by the "success redirection page" when I set up the subscription service in PayPal. So basically once a user is done on PayPal's site (i.e. finished charging their credit card), they get redirected to my form that asks for name, email, login, and password, etc.