Forms & paypal & shopping

[cat00x]

This may be way beyond my expertise, but I'll at least ask before I go off and look to pay our guy to do it.

We have a site here that asks people to become members. We are using a form with php. When you click the submit button, the form gets mailed to 4 people and then the person is directed to a payment page where they can select one of 3 PayPal buttons. We are getting a lot of "false" membership forms, so want to discourage that by requiring the people to pay in order for the form to be submitted. Can this happen using the setup we are currently using? It looks like if you hit the PayPal button, you are directed to Pay Pal, and the information we require will not be forwarded as we need it to be. Is there a way to ask the "pay button" to perform 2 actions, 1) send the form to the 4 addresses, and 2) go to PayPal?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Catherine

[redsox9]

I don't know the "how" but I know that it is possible to have payment made through PayPal before an action is taken. There is at least one site I visit where I advertise through sponsorships and you must submit payment before you can make your request. PayPal may even have some help on this.

[felgall]

A Paypal IPN script is a script on your site that is called by Paypal once the payment has been processed.

I use one to email electronic products to the buyer when Paypal approves their purchase.