Paypal question

[Work In Progress]

Hi,
I'm looking at adding donate buttons from PayPal to some of my mobisitegalore sites using your new goodie for this.

I'm confused as to what information is needed in the set up process. Your set up form asks for a:


Seller API User Name
Seller API Password
Seller API Signature
Donation description

Donation description, I get.

I've looked around the PayPal website for hours now but can't find where to find this info. Even searching these terms in the help area bring up no results.

Is my regular user name / password the same as my API ?
Where can I find the API signature info?

Thanks in advance,
Mark

[mobiSiteGalore]

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in Akmin's mobile SiteBuilder.

We request you to kindly contact / crosscheck with paypal to get the following details :

* Seller API User name:
* Seller API Password :
* Seller API Signature :

Feel free to sign up with our Online Support Forum and post all your support related queries at http://forums.mobisitegalore.com (http://forums.mobisitegalore.com/). It will take you less than 2 minutes ... and the best part is, you can even check our 'Question & Answer' repository to see if we have already answered your question for another user.

While posting your queries, also provide us with your mobile SiteBuilder login name and the URL you use to log into the mobile SiteBuilder so that we
can analyze the issue.

Regards,
Support Team

[Work In Progress]

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in Akmin's mobile SiteBuilder.

We request you to kindly contact / crosscheck with paypal to get the following details :

* Seller API User name:
* Seller API Password :
* Seller API Signature :

Feel free to sign up with our Online Support Forum and post all your support related queries at http://forums.mobisitegalore.com (http://forums.mobisitegalore.com/). It will take you less than 2 minutes ... and the best part is, you can even check our 'Question & Answer' repository to see if we have already answered your question for another user.

While posting your queries, also provide us with your mobile SiteBuilder login name and the URL you use to log into the mobile SiteBuilder so that we
can analyze the issue.

Regards,
Support Team
Thank you for your interest in Akmins mobile sitebuilder??? I've been using it for years now. I am a member of the support forum. In the past, the response to questions was extremely slow and sporadic. That's one reason this section was added on, and it has worked fairly well.

I have to ask if you read my request at all?
I already let you know I couldn't find any info anywhere at PayPal regarding the requested info, but you tell me to find it there?

Could you direct me to a source where I can find my paypal API user name, password and signature? PayPals help section does not list any of these in their search feature. :hmmmm2: The link you give for your help leads you to PayPal help section...but, again...the info you speak of is nowhere to be found.

You guys seem to put a lot of effort into bringing these nice features in play, which I commend, BUT you also often lack the proper instructions on making them work...

Thanks again

[andymoore]

PayPal.com
Profile
API access
Edit or get new signature

[Work In Progress]

PayPal.com
Profile
API access
Edit or get new signature
Thank you Andy...Repped

Simple when you know where to look!

MSG, you really need to post this simple info in your help section

[mobiSiteGalore]

Thanks for the suggestion. We will do the needful at the earliest possible.

[andymoore]

MSG are you guys still using my PHP detection code without credit or the goodness to fiscally reward me?

[mobiSiteGalore]

Andy,

We are already providing you the credit in our PHP code where we are using your initial logic as follows.

// ***** We thank Andy Moore (http://www.andymoore.info) for the following PC-Mobile Auto Redirection code *****

For any further details or clarifications in this regard, please get in touch with us by email at support@mobisitegalore.com.

[Work In Progress]

The PayPal donate button has been implemented into several of my public service sites.

Non seem to be working properly. I get 404 Forbidden messages. Andy Moore tried it out on an iPhone and reported he was getting a 403 forbidden page.

A few sites it's in at this time:

daterape.mobi
earlysigns.mobi
evacuations.mobi

Could you please check out what might be wrong.

Thanks,
Mark

[mobiSiteGalore]

Since mobiSiteGalore is publishing pages through FTP, it doesn't appear to be application related. Rather it appears to be a permission related issue (403 Forbidden) at the hosted location. Do you have the issue of having to grant permission to PHP pages after publishing so that you can browse them? If so, check the permission for PayPal_Donate.php.

The "404 Not Found error" error you are referring to is an additional error that occurs because Apache - PHP (at the hosted location) is not properly configured to handle such (403 Forbidden) errors.

[Work In Progress]

Since mobiSiteGalore is publishing pages through FTP, it doesn't appear to be application related. Rather it appears to be a permission related issue (403 Forbidden) at the hosted location. Do you have the issue of having to grant permission to PHP pages after publishing so that you can browse them? If so, check the permission for PayPal_Donate.php.

The "404 Not Found error" error you are referring to is an additional error that occurs because Apache - PHP (at the hosted location) is not properly configured to handle such (403 Forbidden) errors.

Yes, I have always had the permission issues, but only with my index file. The PayPal_Donate.php is showing correctly
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm56/ideaearth/MSGPaypal1.jpg

[mobiSiteGalore]

Hi WIP,

We agree that, as per your latest input, the permission setting for "PayPal_Donate.php" is no different from other PHP files. But we don't have any means to control or modify the permission settings at the hosted location from within the application.

We are using FTP to publish the site files and it is the same for all site files and all FTP locations. All we can do is to check whether the same is working when published elsewhere, which it does. Hence we think that your web host could be of better help.

[Work In Progress]

Here's the latest for anyone who uses HostGator and wants to utilize this tool. According to their support, you'll have to call or submit a ticket with the site and pages the paypal feature is on so they can make permission adjustments. There's nothing that we can do through cpanel. This is due to security issues, I'm told. HostGator has to "white list" it for it to work.

They changed the permission on earlysigns, but now I'm getting this when I click on the paypal button:


XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </div>.
Location: http://earlysigns.mobi/PayPal_Donate.php?desc=Earlysigns.mobi%20Donation&url_index=4&url_cancel=http://earlysigns.mobi/what_are_my_choices_4.php
Line Number 1, Column 1407:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="public"/> <meta content="mobiSiteGalore" name="Generator" /> <title>Early Signs</title><meta name="description" content="Early Signs Of Pregnancy" /><meta name="keywords" content="Early Signs Of Pregnancy" /> <link href="css/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> </head><body><div class="header"><div id="algn" class="header_center" ><img src="images/logo_75.jpg" width="120" height="70" alt="EarlySignsFull01NoBordercomp" /></div> <div class="pgheader"><a href="index.php" accesskey="0">0-Home</a></div></div><div class="BodyText"> <!--mobibegincontent--><!--mobiendcontent-->><div class="footer"><span class="footerng"><a href="index.php" accesskey="0">0-Home</a><img src="http://login.mobisitegalore.com/team/website_traffic/43864/1193160538586/spacer.gif?wsid=1193160538586dmnearlysigns.mobi" alt="." width="1" height="1" /></span><br />IdeaEarth&copy; 2007. All rights reserved. Early Signs of Pregnancy</div><div class="BodyText"><a href="http://www.mobisitegalore.com/">Website built with mobile using mobiSiteGalore</a> | <a href="http://login.mobisitegalore.com/mobi/abuse.jsp?uno=1001&amp;lang=en" >Report Abuse </a></div> </body></html>You guessed it, they say this is the "third party sitebuilder" issue.

[gogo]

somewhere you are missing a </div> tag.

You could just try pasting one in before the </body> tag and see if that fixes it, may or may not, rather than try to work out the exact location where it is missing.

seems we've had this missing tag before LOL.

[Work In Progress]

somewhere you are missing a </div> tag.

You could just try pasting one in before the </body> tag and see if that fixes it, may or may not, rather than try to work out the exact location where it is missing.

seems we've had this missing tag before LOL.

Yes, we have had a similar issue before :smile:

Seems as if the </div> elves have entered the picture. They have magically fixed the issue and the page now resolves (at least on my pc). Thanks to whoever fixed this :adore:

Now, I've got to finish the other sites I'm implimenting this into and send in my support ticket requests.

[gogo]

just a suggestion http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
http://uk3.php.net/tidy

[Work In Progress]

That's a nice tool gogo

bookmarked in case I need it for future reference. My main concern is having my sites render properly in all aspects. If they don't, I'd love to know how to fix them so they do.

My secondary concern is that mobisitegalore needs to know about these issues in order to fix any glitches so this doesn't happen to others in the future (and based off what I've seen, I have to assume that this is some sort of coding glitch)

[mobiSiteGalore]

We have corrected the issue, kindly crosscheck the same at your end for further clarification.

[Work In Progress]

We have corrected the issue, kindly crosscheck the same at your end for further clarification.
Thank you

This same issue is popping up on some other pages I've added this paypal goodie to. Most are showing the page fine, but two need correcting.

type1.mobi
Blood Sugar Levels page not displaying due to

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://type1.mobi/blood_sugar_levels_5.php
Line Number 1, Column 1248:evacuations.mobi
Evacuation Directions page not displaying due to :

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </div>.
Location: http://evacuations.mobi/evacuation_directions_5.php
Line Number 26, Column 909:

[mobiSiteGalore]

It appears to be input related issue. We are analyzing the same and will update you soon.

[gogo]

It appears to be input related issue. We are analyzing the same and will update you soon.

if you use PHP's tidy() function on all your outputs it will fix incorrect XHTML.

great for you customers because then they don't have these problems, but you'll still need to find your problems and solve them behind the scenes.

[andymoore]

Libtidy install is going to be beyond 99% users.

[gogo]

Libtidy install is going to be beyond 99% users.

Hi Andy what I meant is MSG could tidy the files themselves that they generate BEFORE the users download or ftp the sites they create on MSG... so there is no more of this problem of users finding their sites break because of missing tags.

[Work In Progress]

Hi Andy what I meant is MSG could tidy the files themselves that they generate BEFORE the users download or ftp the sites they create on MSG... so there is no more of this problem of users finding their sites break because of missing tags.
Sounds like a great suggestion gogo :adore:

[mobiSiteGalore]

Output generated by mobiSiteGalore is totally mobile standards compliant. One of it is just a FireFox browser related issue and no way affects the way it works with the mobile devices.
(http://ready.mobi/results.jsp?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fevacuations.mobi%2Fev acuation_directions_5.php&locale=en_EN&em=null&ch=null)

[mobiSiteGalore]

In the other issue, the internal page structure of mobiSiteGalore seem to have been affected. It could have happened because of usage of IE 8 browser for which we have come out with a correction recently.

[Work In Progress]

In the other issue, the internal page structure of mobiSiteGalore seem to have been affected. It could have happened because of usage of IE 8 browser for which we have come out with a correction recently.Don't know if it helps on your end, but I don't use IE, so I'm not sure if this is relevant :dontknow:

Thanks for the corrections. Both pages now displaying