I usually created an asp.net usercontrol to do this.  example below:

  <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="NZD">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Name of purchased item">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="11.90">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="NZD">
<input type="hidden" name="bn"
  value="PP-BuyNowBF:btn_buynow_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest">
  <input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.mycompany.co.nz/return.aspx" />
  <input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://www.mycompany.co.nz/process.aspx" />
<asp:ImageButton ValidationGroup="eigh" ID="ImageButton1" runat="server"
  ImageUrl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif"
  PostBackUrl="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" />

thanks for the reply, i had hoped umbraco would allow me to do something without the need for a control...and i had hoped to do it without going to a detail page for each product.

I have my own .net code that does what i want, guess i can adapt it and import it into Umbraco.

Thanks again.

S

could i do this by reading from the nodes in .net?

S

This can definitly be done in XSLT. The way I would approach it is have a node type for products with properties for each product price, name, category etc. You can then interate through the product nodes in XSLT and output the paypal button code, pulling down the property values as you go....

You can do something like:

<input type="hidden" name="item_name">

<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="$node/@nodeName" /></xsl:attribute>

</input>

This will add the attribute "value" to the input tag with the node's name as the attributes content.

Glad its sorted. Enjoy!

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