Thanks for the post,helped me a lot.

Thanks, very useful to me.

Testing with Ran’s PayPal_Lib for CodeIgniter can be a bit hit and miss – and like equalizer says, it can be a bit confusing how to update the URLs to handle https:// for the fsockopen command. To deal with these issues we’ve done a full rewrite of Ran’s library internally, and we’ve now open-sourced it on GitHub, I hope you find it useful: https://github.com/orderly/codeigniter-paypal-ipn
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Nice work! This came in handy big time! I had done a paypal integration with IPN a little over a year ago in ColdFusion and I knew I had to flip the url settings and the port for Sandbox purposes, but couldn’t remember exactly what they were. This post was perfect saved me a bunch of time. thanks and keep up the good work!

Thank goodness I found this early on! I had everything covered on updates in the wiki, but I would NOT have known to use the ssl before the hostname! Also what I did – I just put ‘ssl://’ and then still used the $url_parsed['host']. Maybe on some installations the parse_url will return https as part of the host name, but I don’t think so. Anyway for me it’s reliable and I can still keep host name dynamic that way. But if I had not known to force ssl in hostname as well as via port number, I would have spent way more time debugging, so thank you again!

yes indeed! clear, concise instructions; helped me so much with the darn thing kep fighting with for 2 days!! It was the fsocket connection, first didnt have correct sandbox address (but I missed the 443 port!); then not until I read your post did I realize that was the final piece of the puzzle… darn 443!!

thanks for posting such helpful info…

Thanks 4 sharing.

I have been having a bad luck since past 2 years. I have never integrated pay pal. This is the first time.
i download a library from http://codeigniter.com/wiki/PayPal_Lib/ and made necessary changes as given in CI’s wiki.
I’m just enable to manage this whole stuff.
I have a shopping cart(the inbuilt CI one). I need to put a check out button. and what should i do next..
Please help

thanks a lot! clear cut instruction.