google checkout get custom variable at continue url

[mfaisalwarraich]

Hello everybody,

I am working with google checkout and currently working at sandbox environment. I have used Paypal and i thought google checkout should work like the same. but i wonder that google checkout is not posting back the HTML form field on return URL and im not able to find any proper solution for this problem yet. Here is my code.

<form method="POST"
  action="https://sandbox.google.com/checkout/api/checkout/v2/checkoutForm/Merchant/SOMEID">
  <input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="Add to My Page"/>
  <input type="hidden" name="item_description_1" value="Add Pgae"/>
  <input type="hidden" name="item_quantity_1" value="1"/>
  <input type="hidden" name="item_price_1" value="35"/>
  <input type="hidden" name="ship_method_currency_1" value="GBP"/>
  <input type="hidden" name="checkout-flow-support.merchant-checkout-flow-support.continue-shopping-url" value="http://www.mydomain.com/gcheckout_success"/>
<input type="hidden" name="shopping-cart.merchant-private-data" value="MyOrder#123">
  <input type="hidden" name="_charset_"/>
  <input type="image" name="Google Checkout" alt="Asian Wedding - Checkout"
src="http://sandbox.google.com/checkout/buttons/checkout.gif?merchant_id=SOMEID&w=180&h=46&style=white&variant=text&loc=en_US"
height="46" width="180"/>
</form>
 

here im using a custom field shopping-cart.merchant-private-data to get the data but i dont know how to collect that data on continue URL.

I just need to pass some ID in a custom field so that on return URL I can get it back and then change my database on the basis of this ID. There is one thing which is important that Upon return google checkout is destroying sessions also and there is no value stored in sessions. This made a big problem for me. So please tell me how i can get that custom ID back from google checkout.

Thanx.

[TheServant]

So the form is not posting?

Make a PHP script which echo's a value from the $_POST array and set the form action to that page. That way you can see if it's the form or the checkout api you're using.

I have never set up Google checkout, but I am guessing there is no error or message when you submit? Also, have a look at line 8: it looks like that is where you are sent if it is successful.

[mfaisalwarraich]

I have tried to echo the $_POST array with var_dump() but its showing nothing into it.