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Torger Angeltveit
Torger Angeltveit
11,228 Points
Posted by Torger Angeltveit
Torger Angeltveit
11,228 Points

Paypal shopping cart with PHP

Hi, is it possible to add a number to the paypal shoppingcart holder displaying how many items you have added to the cart?

i want to display it on the original site and not on the paypal checkout form.

2 Answers

Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points
Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points

I'm not sure if there is an command to pull this value from the Paypal API. But you could try creating a function that increments a variable when an item has been added to a cart then return the value in a custom icon.

To store the value of the variable you could use PHP setcookie() function to store it in the users cookies.

Personally I do not like the API for Paypal Cart in more advanced designs and prefer to use services such as Shopify or many of the other availible e-commerce platforms.

Torger Angeltveit
Torger Angeltveit
11,228 Points
Torger Angeltveit
Torger Angeltveit
11,228 Points

Thanks for answer, ill try it out :)