[HELP]How to get address/info back from Paypal ?

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smashhell
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[HELP]How to get address/info back from Paypal ?

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I am pretty new to php coding and I am working on an e-commerce website.
I had been successful in sending shopping cart information to Papal and everything. However, I am stuck on the part where I am suppose to get user address/info back from Paypal.

Here is how it suppose to look:
1.Shopping cart -> 2.Paypal (user enter address/info) -> 3.return to my website with user info

Is it possible to get all these information back from Paypal ? Or is the only way to do it is to have the user manually enter all the information into my website before I send them to Paypal ?

Any help or pointing me where to look would be greatly appreciated. :D
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Re: [HELP]How to get address/info back from Paypal ?

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Paypal has tools for that, read all of the development pages.
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Re: [HELP]How to get address/info back from Paypal ?

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I've gotten as far as here:

https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1196

It's the "GetTransactionDetails API" Documention from Paypal.

But I have no clue as to how to actually use the getTransactionDetails function though. :(
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Re: [HELP]How to get address/info back from Paypal ?

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I don't know what particular flavour of PayPal you are using, but if it is Website Payments Standard then you might want to look at the info re Payment Data Transfer, whereby the customer's name, confirmation of the purchase total etc are posted back to your script.
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