PayPal and Customer Email Address

Question

Ok ive got the whole paypal system working and coldfusion,
the IPN works perfectly.
But I want to record a customers email address before sending
the informatiton to paypal, I have a simple form with email address
and an onto paypal button.
How can I pass the email address to my database then the rest
of paypal info to paypal.
Thought of passing it to another cfm page, which would
automatically then goto paypal, but how do I get the pay to
automatically send a form.

Answer 1

This could be a bit trick since you basically want to actions
for you
submit. Leaving out an Ajax solution which you could possibly
capture
the e-mail field and post it to a page separately from the
form submit.
Without bringing in another buzz word I see two options which
may work.
Submit to a CFML Action page that captures the email field
and then
ONE: uses cfhttp and cfhttpparameter tags to build a request
and send it
to the paypal action url.
TWO: creates a new <form ...></form> block but
with all hidden fields.
Then on the onload event trigger a JavaScript submit of the
form.
Either of these could have problems, but it's the best I can
come up
with off the top of my head.
stuart1231 wrote:
> Ok ive got the whole paypal system working and
coldfusion, the IPN works
> perfectly.
>
> But I want to record a customers email address before
sending the informatiton
> to paypal, I have a simple form with email address and
an onto paypal button.
>
>
> How can I pass the email address to my database then the
rest of paypal info
> to paypal.
> Thought of passing it to another cfm page, which would
automatically then goto
> paypal, but how do I get the pay to automatically send a
form.
>