Hi,
I’m new to web designing (using Freeway 5.5) and am currently making a site for an artist friend who wants Paypal buttons on her gallery pages.
When I add a PayPal Action button and preview the page, the test payment goes through to her PP account.
However, when I upload the page, nothing at all happens when I click the PP button!
AFAIK, I’ve filled in all the information in the Actions window correctly.
Please can anyone help? David
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Hiya DeltaDave,
Thanks for responding.
I’ve made some headway…I think it’s to do with masking my friend’s site. If, for example, I type in the url underwater2 rather than the masked www.ruthcollett.co.uk (and navigate to that gallery page) then the PayPal buttons work OK.
I’ll ask my provider why this is.
If you’ve any advice on this problem I’d really appreciate it.
Cheers,
David
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"Framed forwarding (also known as ‘masked’ or ‘cloaked’ forwarding) uses HTML code which opens your web site into a frame in the visitors browser. The net result of this process is that your web site opens up your destination URL (such as http://myfreespace.com) in the browser window but your domain name (eg. http://www.yourdomain.co.uk) is displayed in the visitors browser address bar.
PayPal does not allow the use of their payment pages to be displayed inside of a Frame. For security reasons, PayPal members are warned never to enter their PayPal account password into any page whose URL does not begin with https://www.paypal.com/.
When the PayPal logos are used in a Frame, the PayPal URL is not displayed, nor is the security lock displayed in the browser. This can also cause Run Time errors for most browsers if using Javascript on the web site. According to the PayPal User Agreement you are prohibited from using a PayPal logo to display a PayPal payment page of any kind inside of a Framed Page.
There is good news and a workaround. Simply add target=“paypal” in the tag of the HTML code. This will prevent the PayPal payment page from being displayed in a Frame. The corrected line of code should look like this:
David