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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Integrating with PayPal Creating Paypal Buttons

Konstantinos Pedarakis
Konstantinos Pedarakis
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Posted by Konstantinos Pedarakis
Konstantinos Pedarakis
21,301 Points

what we would do if we had thousands of products?

Hi everyone!! i was confused here with PayPal since it is something new to me, as far as payment services are concerned. anyway my question is if we had lets say to deal hundreds or thousands of products, what we would do? i mean, its imposible to set up thousands of those PayPal buttons.

Thanks.

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Maximillian Fox
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Maximillian Fox
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Maximillian Fox
Maximillian Fox
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This depends if you want to set up an online store, which is the way to go like how say Amazon do it.

A typical e-commerce site would have an 'add to cart' button on each of the pages, which would select the product most likely by its ID from a database, and then when you click View Cart, the IDs are called again to perform the addition and total price to the cart. This is easier to set up in PHP and a database like MySQL, because the way your site would be set up would be largely template based. Then you have 1 PayPal button, and you are done :)

Konstantinos Pedarakis
Konstantinos Pedarakis
21,301 Points
Konstantinos Pedarakis
Konstantinos Pedarakis
21,301 Points

yeah. thanks! that has a lot more sense. that was actually what i had in mind. Thanks Maximillian Fox