Was not really sure where to even post this but here are the basics

i found an great affiliate (free) program

its awesome and it works really great on capturing the clicks...

i ran a test sale today and it picked up the click but not the sale

i have much of it coded right im sure but it goes from my site to paypal then comes back to a confirm thank you page on my site and what im thinking is that i cant pick up the sale until i capture it on the other end when it comes back to my site and my confirm page...

as of now i have all the snippes and button on this side before it goes to paypal...

i believe that is where im missing the boat...


whats a good section to post this in to ask for some very simple coding help... thanks



Update:  Ok i figured out i have the info i need on my side after the sale, i just need help passing them to my aff program, sale  amount and uid  and item name is all i need to post.  Im currently doing some research of how to do this if you can point me in the right direction thats great thanks.

Ok another update,  i have sorted it down to the fact that i need to add another notify url from the pay transaction, they told me i cannot have two sep notify url inputs in one button routine so here is my question, on my side after the sale it goes to my thank you page (after processing the notify php and  going thru the payment pass thru php, can i add this to my thank  you php and will it run correctly after the sale is complete and it comes to this page,



here is my thoughts,  the first notify url processes the sale for the website, and then when it finishes and comes to the thank you page and runs this notify url and processes  the affiliate sale and posts it to the affiliate software

followup question, ok so i have the data on my site db, i also have the affiliate software ready to get the data, they are seperate so now what, if i move the notify url to the affiliate then i cant use the confirm page on the site... and to be honest i dont want the affiliate software handling too much, i just want it to get the data it needs and thats it.
i know this cant be that hard to just take the data i already have and just shoot it over to the affiliate ipn, ill keep digging...

Ok another update: i have been looking on the net and reading paypal most of the day, its hard for me to believe that noone has ever done this before, create a plugin to duplicate the action of the notify url in such a way that your affiliate software can grab the data..

here are my choices:

first is to just just change the notify url code in the button to point to the affiliate program instead of my ipn verify on my site,  i dont want to do that because this is however a third party affiliate program and im not totally familiar with its workings yet, i know that my site works and so i dont want to change that process...

second.. on my site i capture the data from ipn in my data base so im half way to a solution, i could just take that data and build an array and update the affiliate database with that, however that means that ill have to rewrite the way the affiliate ipn file updates and the site and instead of using paypal notify url it will just read right off the db, that means alot of new code and changes that might not even work because i have no idea if the ipn php from my affiliate is set up to require validation thru paypal or it wont work, and i dont need all the var, i just need a few and what happens if i dont pull them all will the aff program bomb...

third, find a third party plugin that will allow each sale to update my site but also capture the information of the sale in such a way that the affiliate program thinks its connected to a notify url from paypal directly or something similar.

this really cant be that hard to do, i know it has been done i just cant find the right google term to search yet....

I have two softwares that work great, site and aff, i just need to bridge some information... some one has had to do this before someplace....

im thinking that once it is verified with paypal and i go to my thank you page there is not reason to reverify to update the aff program and that is where i want the update to take place, after the connection between my site and paypal is complete, then update the aff software..

i am either totaly overthinking this and its a one line code solution or its a major undertaking,  can some one just point me in a right direction please. or any advise

update: i found this http://mydigitaldispatch.com/ipn/   it looks perfect for what i want to do, but the site looks kinda hokey and it does not appear to have been updated in a while,  but thats what im looking for just from someone thats more current and available and has a professional updated site..