Help with registration design

They have: 10 posts

Joined: Dec 2003

Webmasters I need your help !
I want to build a registration system and I can't decide what will be the best way of doing it !

*I have a php form that the usr fill in .
*OnSubmit there is the DB record insertion.
*Moving to a page that the usr can choose the lengh of registration time and pay with paypal.
*Return to my site with a "thank you" page.
My Problem :
1. I want to send an email message with the details the user filled in to his address with the stored data in the DB. But after he paid.
2. I want my "thank you" page to present his details .
So .. Should I use a cookie ? to know who he is after he came bake from PP ?
And if so ..then what data to store in this cookie ? and how ?

Any help will be appriciate .. Thx.

Renegade's picture

He has: 3,022 posts

Joined: Oct 2002

IMO using cookies would not be such a great idea. Sessions would be a better choice, that way personal information is destroyed when the user leaves the site.

Busy's picture

He has: 6,151 posts

Joined: May 2001

problem is the session wouldn't transfer the info you need, you could check they came from paypal but it doesn't mean they paid or anything, and paypal being a server server (https) you wouldn't beable to decode the info even if it was possible.

can you use another payment method? 2checkout or something, i believe some of them allow you to use your sites coding, maybe even cookie/sessions

Suzanne's picture

She has: 5,507 posts

Joined: Feb 2000

Paypal does have an IPN service where it sends information to your database/site. You may want to integrate that with a memberid system, and store the sessionid in the memberid and do some fact checking using that?

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