| PayPal Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools |  | Authors: Shannon Sofield, Dave Nielsen, Dave Burchell
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 597,241
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0596007515
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.178
UPC: 636920007517
EAN: 9780596007515
ASIN: 0596007515
Publication Date: September 7, 2004
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Product Description
This title demonstrates how to make the most of PayPal to get the most out of your online business or transactions. It shows how to take steps to protect yourself while buying or selling on eBay to using PayPal on your own site to handle subscriptions, affiliations and donations.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not rocket science April 16, 2006
G. Irwin (Hertford, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having carefully explained what is meant by a hack it is hard to see how creating a PayPal account (hack #1) can be classed as one. It might be supposed that anyone who was thinking of buying this book had already got so far as to verify their account (hack #2) and confirm their email address (hack #3). Still, the hacks do get more involved and more useful later on and I was delighted to find that the book answered one question I was still trying to get out of PayPal support - it was worth the money for that alone. However, it is disappointing that the code examples are given using ASP rather than PHP which no doubt most would-be PayPal hackers are likely to be using.
 Good basic intro to working with Paypal August 5, 2009
C. A. Austin (England, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I make websites. PayPal integration is the bane of my life. I bought this book 3 years ago, and it hasn't helped me once with my integration issues.
The only thing wrong with this book is the title. It implies that the book will advise on understanding how PayPal's processes operate - and how to make those processes work for the developer.
It does the first part of the job very well. It explains how Paypal works, mainly from the user's perspective (with insight into how & why it works that way). It does very little to help the developer, though, and whatever code examples are provided in Microsoft script, not PHP - even so, none of them answered my (very pressing; very common) questions.
As a rule I find O'Reilly guides a bit too technical & jargon-heavy for me. This one's the opposite! Kudos to them, for taking the wider market into account ... they went a bit overboard with this, though. It is NOT 'industrial strength' and it barely counts as 'hacks'.
Good for: First-time PayPal users (it explains everything); developers doing their first PayPal integration; SOHOs looking to understand what they can do with payment buttons.
Bad for: Anything you can't get from the PayPal developer area! There is nothing new here.
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