PAYPAL

[kudviss]

Hello.

I have installed the default Paypal payment module in admin area. But when i have made a test I was every time directed to Paypal French website even if I tried to checkout using English or other languages in the store.

 

I want the French users to be directed in Paypal French and English users to English Paypal.

 

Please kindly reply to this topic.

Thank you.

[GemRock]

you could try to make a copy the paypal.php module and rename it to, say, paypal_french, then edit the paypal url in that file to match the french paypal server. and also make some other changes such as class name in it so that it wont conflict with th eoriginal (English) paypal module. And dont forget the paypal language file, which needs to be the same name as the new french paypal module and, obviously, translate it into french.

 

Good Luck

 

Ken

[kudviss]

Thank you Ken, but the problem is that whatever the costumer chooses, when he confirms the order he is always redircted to PAYPAL French platform. I installed PAYAL IPN now, but the same problem persists.

 

Please try to give more clear and precise help because I only have some notions in Oscommerce.

 

Thank you again

[Velveeta]

Thank you Ken, but the problem is that whatever the costumer chooses, when he confirms the order he is always redircted to PAYPAL French platform. I installed PAYAL IPN now, but the same problem persists.

 

Please try to give more clear and precise help because I only have some notions in Oscommerce.

 

Thank you again

The basics of what he said would still apply, you're going to want to check the customer's language and send them to the appropriate version of the paypal site... You could do this right inside of the module itself, when it generates the form_url, just do a quick check to see if their language is english or french, and set the form_url to the proper paypal address for each language...

 

Richard.

[kudviss]

The basics of what he said would still apply, you're going to want to check the customer's language and send them to the appropriate version of the paypal site... You could do this right inside of the module itself, when it generates the form_url, just do a quick check to see if their language is english or french, and set the form_url to the proper paypal address for each language...

 

Richard.

 

 

Many thanks to all of you. But which file, which line or which code should I replace by which. I am new to PHP. Please be kindly more precise in your replies.

[Velveeta]

Many thanks to all of you. But which file, which line or which code should I replace by which. I am new to PHP. Please be kindly more precise in your replies.

You'll need to update the actual paypal module file, which is whatever you downloaded for the IPN, maybe called paypal_ipn.php or something, found in your includes/modules/payment/paypal_ipn.php... Look for the part in the beginning, maybe called function paypal_ipn or something, that looks like this:

 

$this->form_action_url = 'https://secure.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';

That's gonna hold the url that they're sent off to... At the beginning of that function, add a global variable reference for $language, so it looks like this:

 

global $order, $language;

And then above the form_action_url line, add a check for this:

 

if ($language == 'french') {
	$this->form_action_url = 'https://secure.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr'; <-- set this to the french version's url...
  } else {
	$this->form_action_url = 'https://secure.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';
  }

 

I can't promise it will work, but that's about the jist of what you'll need to do...

 

Richard.

[kudviss]

Hi Richard,

 

I did exactly what you said but as you can see in the code below the Paypal contribution files are already set to English version paypal, but however whatever the language selected in my store the costumers are always to French version paypal, this is really amazing !!

This a part of a the IPN contribution code:

 

// class constructor

function paypal_ipn() {

 

global $order,

$this->code = 'paypal_ipn';

$this->title = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_TEXT_TITLE;

$this->description = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_TEXT_DESCRIPTION;

$this->sort_order = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_SORT_ORDER;

$this->enabled = ((MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);

$this->email_footer = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_TEXT_EMAIL_FOOTER;

$this->identifier = 'osCommerce PayPal IPN v2.1';

 

if ((int)MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_PREPARE_ORDER_STATUS_ID > 0) {

$this->order_status = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_PREPARE_ORDER_STATUS_ID;

}

 

if (is_object($order)) $this->update_status();

 

if (MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_GATEWAY_SERVER == 'Live') {

$this->form_action_url = 'https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';

} else {

$this->form_action_url = 'https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';

}

 

}

[Velveeta]

Hi Richard,

 

I did exactly what you said but as you can see in the code below the Paypal contribution files are already set to English version paypal, but however whatever the language selected in my store the costumers are always to French version paypal, this is really amazing !!

This a part of a the IPN contribution code:

 

// class constructor

function paypal_ipn() {

 

global $order,

$this->code = 'paypal_ipn';

$this->title = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_TEXT_TITLE;

$this->description = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_TEXT_DESCRIPTION;

$this->sort_order = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_SORT_ORDER;

$this->enabled = ((MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);

$this->email_footer = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_TEXT_EMAIL_FOOTER;

$this->identifier = 'osCommerce PayPal IPN v2.1';

 

if ((int)MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_PREPARE_ORDER_STATUS_ID > 0) {

$this->order_status = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_PREPARE_ORDER_STATUS_ID;

}

 

if (is_object($order)) $this->update_status();

 

if (MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_IPN_GATEWAY_SERVER == 'Live') {

$this->form_action_url = 'https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';

} else {

$this->form_action_url = 'https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';

}

 

}

In that case, it might not be something you have any control over... Some sites detect either what country a person is coming from, or what version of browser they're using, or whatever, and automatically direct the user to a specific version of their site... If that module is sending people to the standard paypal site, and paypal is detecting they're either in france or using a french version of their browser, even if they're english-speaking, it could be directing them to a french version of their page... There's nothing that I know of that you can do to change this behavior...

 

Richard.

[kudviss]

In that case, it might not be something you have any control over... Some sites detect either what country a person is coming from, or what version of browser they're using, or whatever, and automatically direct the user to a specific version of their site... If that module is sending people to the standard paypal site, and paypal is detecting they're either in france or using a french version of their browser, even if they're english-speaking, it could be directing them to a french version of their page... There's nothing that I know of that you can do to change this behavior...

 

Richard.

 

 

I think maybe because I have made a modification on my store so that the default store language should be in French, I will remove that modification. and try again your idea. But could you please insert the codes you told me above in the paypal_ipn.php part of code above, because there is the standbox condition confusing me so i don t know where to put your code exactly

[kudviss]

My store now detectes the language set in the browser, but PAYPAL problem persists> Another point the paypal French URL is https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr it is the same as the English URL i think

[kudviss]

My store now detectes the language set in the browser, but PAYPAL problem persists> Another point the paypal French URL is https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr it is the same as the English URL i think

 

 

 

ORIIIIIIIKAAA, I figured out where the problem is, Richard you gave some hints thank you, the problem was that the test user i Log in to the store was registred with FRANCE as a country, So that s why Paypal Module copies automatically the country of the user to paypal website and thus the payment platform was in French, when i used another test user with a UK as a country it automatically was in ENGLISH. Many thanks to everyone for your ideas.