Hello everyone.

We have a local event coming up and we want to sell tickets online. The idea is to have a printable ticket up on the site and at the end of the transaction the customer would be automatically directed to that [ticket] page.

Problem is I don't know how to do that. Any ideas on the best way to do this would be much appreciated! Or if anyone has any better ideas that would be great, too!

Thanks!
Jack

And the server side code you can use is?

Hi chrishirst

I don't understand your question - I'm sorry. Please explain.

What server side code does your hosting support? You will need some coding to handle the transaction.

PHP?
ASP?
ASP.NET?
ColdFusion?
Perl?
Python?

some thing else?

Ah ... php, perl, mySQL - probably python, never checked into that.

Thanks!

Well crud - I thought you could help out but you seem more interested in moving the thread.

I did take some care in choosing the forum I posted in - by nudging me into the PHP forum my odds on getting any advice, on PayPal, Google Checkout, whatever other-than-php methods are greatly decreased. Nice move.

Thanks - you can delete this thread

HSOET

the payment process does NOT matter, your requirement is how to handle the RETURN PROCESS after the payment has been made.

THAT needs server side processing. ALL payment processors will return form values to the calling site to indicate if the transaction was successful or not, your site has to handle these and direct the user to either the "printable ticket" (a PDF download would be best) or to a "Sorry now go away!" page.

Trust me, I've done this a few times (in ASP) for a couple of night club websites I used to look after for. How you handle it on your site will make the difference, NOT who you use for payment.
BTW Your site should also be able to handle "offline" payments as well, then send the ticket download URL to the purchaser via email once payment has been made.