Paypal payment issue

[norgan]

When using the paypal payment plugin i am getting a problem withy checkout. Instead of calling paypal.com//cgi-bin/webscr?&cmd=_ext-enter&redirect_cmd=_xclick&upload=1&business=......
it's trying to call mywebsite.com//cgi-bin/webscr?&cmd=_ext-enter&redirect_cmd=_xclick&upload=1&business=........

If i replace the initial hostname from my website to paypal.com then it works.

Any idea's why this would not be passing the right url?

[alatak]

Hi,

Can you tell which Joomla version, and which VirtueMart version?

[norgan]

Hi,

Can you tell which Joomla version, and which VirtueMart version?

Hi It's Joomla 1.7 and virtuemart 1.9.8.H

[stinga]

You have not set the PP URL up correctly in the setup screen

[alatak]

Hi,

I don't test Paypal that way.

But I send the session_id to paypal as "custom" parameter. If i don"'t get it ack, then i don't update the status order.

Which means to test , you have to go in the session table to find your actual session id, and give it to paypal.

[norgan]

You have not set the PP URL up correctly in the setup screen

What URL where? the docco for this is crap!

I have set paypal email which is the only option and turned off all debug and sandbox. still only shows the malformed URL.  there is a logo field that says select options but there is nothing in there and won't let me enter anything.

wtf am i missing this is pretty annoying, the total lack of docco and everyone else saying that their paypal works fine is no consolation whatsoever.

[alatak]

Hi,

Your problem seems to be very specific.
You do not need documentation to set up Paypal, and to give an email adress to configure it.

I can try to help you, but you need to give me more input.
To be mad or to swear does not help me to help you.
So  watch your language.

And if you feel that documentation is needed, you can do it and PM it to me. I will be happy to add in the wiki.

What is your enviromenment? PC? windows? mac? Linux? Firefox? Safari? ...

[reddeer]

Hi Alatak,

I have the same results as stinga. My development system is a Windows 7 machine.  I'm running Joomla 1.7 stable on XAMPP 1.7.3 with virtuemart1.9.8.RC2k. 

In case more detail helps, here the Joomla system info:

PHP Built On    Windows NT
Database Version    5.1.41
Database Collation    utf8_general_ci
PHP Version    5.3.1
Web Server    Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
WebServer to PHP Interface    apache2handler
Joomla! Version    Joomla! 1.7.0 Stable [ Ember ] 19-Jul-2011 14:00 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version    Joomla Platform 11.1 Stable+Modified [ Ember ] 01-Jun-2011 06:00 GMT
User Agent    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1

These are my errors:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla17\libraries\joomla\database\database\mysqli.php on line 391

Please let me know whether you need any other information for debugging.  I actually use Authorize.net, but tried to configure for PayPal to test whether I had properly installed credit card php file.

BTW, is anyone seeing this problem on Linux?

Merci. 

[alatak]

Hi,

Txs,

I will have a look with a PC.
I am testing on a Mac, but some of our tester are on PC, and windows.
We are going to release a L version. The package are ready,and i did not change that.
So please be patient

Btw, do you know that you should use MYSQL and not MYSQLI. Looks like MYSQLI does not work with php5.3.
Can you try changing your database.

Txs

[reddeer]

Hi Alatak,

Thank you.

No, I did not know that I should use MySQL rather than MySQLi.  When I was installing Joomla 1.7, I wasn't sure whether to select MySQL or MySQLi, so I looked at the Joomla forums for advice and found http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=2582398  Also, some directions for installing Joomla 1.7 specifically suggest using MySQLi.  The directions that I used (wish I could find them again) said that MySQLi would be the more secure selection.

However, after seeing your answer and searching the VirtueMart forums I now see:

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=90617.0

in which Milbo advises using mysql instead of mysqli.

I can try changing the db as a test.  However, the docs at http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.installation.php say: "On Windows, for PHP versions 5.3 and newer, the mysqli extension is enabled and uses the MySQL Native Driver by default. This means you don't need to worry about configuring access to libmysql.dll."

Thanks again!  I'm looking forward to your Authorize.net payment method implementation.  I don't know Mac OS X, but let me know if you need help testing on Windows (7) or Linux (CentOS).