Comments on: Track Adwords Conversion With Php

By: Nomar

Nomar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:28:31 +0000

Here rates are around 5% yearly

By: Web Design Beach

Web Design Beach — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:00:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Tracking conversations is a must if you want to succeed with adwords or any other advertising campaign.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:24:34 +0000

How is the conversion tracking coming along Jon?

By: BlogTalks

BlogTalks — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:30:23 +0000

Interesting use of the form post method, I would not have thought of doing that or in fact realised it would have worked.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:29:19 +0000

There’s actually a better way to do this in my opinon. With this you have to edit your return URL for each product (suppose its not a big deal.

But the way I’ve done it is to set my return url in my paypal account, there’s a setting under your profile somewhere.

I set it to always go to thanks.php after a transaction is completed. And I turned on payment data transfer.

Then you just stick this code at the top of your page:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/pdn/pdt-codesamples-pop-outside#php

And paypal will send the page some of the transaction details, including $amount which contains how much was charged. Make sure you replace the PDT token in there with the one given to you by paypal after switching on PDT.

This is more efficient because you don’t have to worry about setting a proper return URL every time you add or update a product. It also forces the user to be redirected back to your thankyou page, I’m not 100% certain that just setting a return url in the form code does that.

By: Pandora Battery

Pandora Battery — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:14:38 +0000

Jon! Your slakin on updates bro. lol.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:01:48 +0000

Cool stuff, I actually did something very similar not too long ago, however, coming from South Africa, we’re not allowed to use PayPal :/