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How do I get the email addresses of multiple recipients from a PayPal IPN?

I am using the Parrallel payment feature of the Adaptive Payment API. In some cases, I have more than one recipient.

Reading the paypal reference on IPN , there's no way to get more than one recipient email address. Is this true?

Solution

  • The Adaptive Payments reference on this page says:

    transaction[n].receiver : The receiver’s email address for the transaction

    where "n" should be the number of recipients, larger than 0 in parallel payments.

    --UPDATE:

    OK. The problem is that Paypal is sending an array within an array through POST. In PHP, $_POST shows an "Array", but it can't be read. I got a workaround to read the response:

    $postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");
mail("[email protected]", "IPN response", $postdata);

    it isn't a clean solution, but it works. Improvements are welcome ;)