I have a website http://www.webtots.co.uk which is designed in flash. 
To cut a long story short I would like to allow the visitors to
register using paypal and be given a automated username and password
that is sent to them and is also updated on my database.  Is this
possible?

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Request for Question Clarification by hedgie-ga on 14 Mar 2005 08:40 PST

Of course it is possible.
 The IPN procedure  described on PayPal site CAN DO THAT.

 What is not possible to answer your question, since you do not say anything
 about your programming skils etc and what you expect for $6.

Program, list of vendors, ar just yes/or no answer?


 I assume you want people to pay small amount, and for that get access to
 some protected info on the your site. Is that so?

I'm sure I've seen this exact question before....

BB

I apologize, it was another, maybe I can find it, it could be of some use to you.

BB

Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but YOU should not have access to
anybody's PayPal password but your own.  Is the PayPal issue and the
username/password issue two separate issues or just one?

Paypal and third party affiliate software offer lots of options, and
if a person buys one of your products using paypal and doesn't have an
account they will be given an option to register, then login, or use
their existing account.

You will not receive much of what you're looking for a.) without a
purchase, and b.) they will NOT give you a buyers user ID or password
in any event because their security policy simply won't allow that -
you'd then have inappropriate full access and could use that person's
account at will.

Most folks use e-mail to confirm accounts and purchases, but if you're
looking for "one click" purchasing using your own database with Paypal
their security policy will still require that extra step.

Their site has alot of good stuff to help you use them for merchant
accounts though - go there, or look to build your own shopping carts
accounts or find some 3rd party solution.

hope this helps

rmanet

Sorry nelson-ga obviusly didn't make myself clear what I wanted was to
not to access any paypal users details but just to generate a username
and password for my webtots website once people have registered

You might want to consider using something like a MySql Database to
hold the records of user-id's and passwords. You would also need a
table to hold/track the order information and set up IPN from PayPal.

1. Set up a form on your web site where your customers enter a
username and password. Using the email address for a username is a
good idea as it also provides a way of contacting the user and it will
be unique.
2. When they press the submit button or similar you would then store
the details in the user table with an additional field to indicate if
the user is activated. This would also add an entry in your order
tracking table and give you back a unique order number.
3. You then display a confirmation page which if the user clicks on
the PayPal button will submit the details to PayPal :-

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="you@yourbusiness.com">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="iftheypresscancel.htm">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="iftheypay.htm">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="Some-Identifier">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Description of the purchase">
<input type="hidden" name="invoice" value="order number from step3">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="The cost">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif"
border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast,
free and secure!">

4. You will also need to write some code to use for PayPal's IPN and
process the values supplied. If PayPal say the payment has gone
through then you set the flag in the user table to active.

5. Your logon process would check the values in the user table, if all
is ok then allow logon otherwise give them a message.

You could use PHP to do all the above or for that extra level of
security Java Servlets if your hosting company allow them.

If you need more info or a detailed explanation then you can contact me through
http://www.scp-computers.co.uk

Hope this helps.

Thank all for your answers.

Thank you to scpcomputerservices-ga who has provided me with the
information I needed to get started with this challenge.

Thank you to hedgie-ga for answering my question although you really
need to look at your grammer as it does not make sense.  Hedgie-gaNo
can i clarify that I will never allow people access to protected info
on any of my websites for any price.

There is a realtively easy project to tackle with PayPal's IPN
Notification service. What you would do is have an "order" page with
HTML code similar to what "scpcomputerservices-ga" referred to.

When the user places an order through the properly coded form, the
transaction id, email address, etc is passed back to the IPN processor
located on your site after the customer submits their payment
information. The processor would then INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE database
records according to the response received frrom PayPal.

Creating their username is easy enough. Use the customer's payment
email address (we do this quite often for similar IPN solutions). The
script would then automatically generate a strong password and mail
the login information to the customer at said email address.

Upon returning to the site, they enter their email address and
assigned password for access to the protected area.

It's relatively simple when you have the necessary code (like we do).
Maybe we could assist you with the development of your payment
processing/membership management system.

Regards,
Robert Mullaney
Simple Tech Enterprises
http://www.simp-tech.com/