sample perl codes for paypal or related transaction

happyse27 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All, Thanks for your answers in the previous questions, I will try it out.

I am working on a website with paypal modules, I can link to paypal using shopping cart from paypal. But it does not enable me to interact with mysql database version 5 where I can store the paypal tranaction regarding quantity, item, date purchased, cost, selling price, etc.

Any good websites for reference as I went to some websites, but did not find anything good, including paypal website which I didnt quite understand what they want.

Just needed some headstart on how to interact with paypal, or any good similar to paypal website, and also credit card transactions.

I am not talented in programming, but I can do simple scripting, and I dont really understand perl modules well enough.

Kindly assist.

Thanks and Best Rgds, Andrew
Note : I am using strawberry perl in windows xp sp2.

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Re: sample perl codes for paypal or related transaction by jethro (Monsignor) on Jul 16, 2009 at 20:21 UTC
Programming a website is not a simple task, and when security is also important it gets really difficult. You won't get by with simple scripting, so my best advice would be: Pay someone with experience to help you My second best advice: Learn to use modules, because they (usually, hopefully) are made by people with knowledge about the task, tested and debugged, in other words experience distilled into code ;-) When you know how to use modules you are ready to search for the words paypal on CPAN, and you will find lots of modules to help you with your task. They also have example code included so using them isn't very hard	[reply]

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Re: sample perl codes for paypal or related transaction
by jethro (Monsignor) on Jul 16, 2009 at 20:21 UTC

Programming a website is not a simple task, and when security is also important it gets really difficult. You won't get by with simple scripting, so my best advice would be: Pay someone with experience to help you

My second best advice: Learn to use modules, because they (usually, hopefully) are made by people with knowledge about the task, tested and debugged, in other words experience distilled into code ;-)

When you know how to use modules you are ready to search for the words paypal on CPAN, and you will find lots of modules to help you with your task. They also have example code included so using them isn't very hard

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