IronCannibal

I figured out a way, now I just need to figure out the Actionscript for Flash. PayPal has their IPN system that I can use to have the finished transaction written to a MySQL DB. So, I just need to set it up so that when someone refreshes the page, a script check the DB for new donations, adds them to the old and displays the amount in Flash. Hmmm....now, how to do that? Maybe a PHP script can be triggered to check the DB and write the new total to the flat file so that Flash can use it? Maybe I'm in way over my head.

I am trying to figure out how I can collect a value from one line of a form and write that value to a flat file. The form is a PayPal button. So, it points to PayPal. I'm wondering if I should point it to my own PHP script then to PayPal, or can I just capture one value without this extra step? Here is the HTML form: <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="paypal"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="test@test.net"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Pay me now"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="xyz123"> <input type="text" name="amount" size="4" maxlength="7"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> </form> I need to capture the amount that they enter for their payment and write that to a flat file. Then I'm taking that file and adding it to some nifty flash animation. Any ideas? IC