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PayPal View Cart Text Link
On a recent website maintenance project, I was in the need for coding of a PayPal “View Cart” text link instead of a button. PayPal support didn’t give me much help so I searched and found my own answer. I thought I’d share it here for anyone looking for the same information.
The standard View Cart button code is as follows:
<form target=”paypal” action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_cart”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”emailORid”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”display” value=”1″>
<input type=”image” src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_viewcart_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”">
<img alt=”" border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif” width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_cart”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”emailORid”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”display” value=”1″>
<input type=”image” src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_viewcart_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”">
<img alt=”" border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif” width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>
To change the button into a text link, substitute the business value from the button code into this text link code:
<a href=”https://www.paypal.com/cart/display=1&business=emailORid” target=”_blank”>View Cart</a>
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March 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
It’s actually a lot easier than that. Just create a button on PayPal now. (It seems like they’ve updated the process fairly recently.) At the end there is an option to create the view cart button. Next to the code created for the button, there is a tab for email. Click on that, and there’s your link.
Code:
view cart
I searched for quite awhile before I found out how easy it was!
January 20th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Wow, I just spent 4 hours trying to figure this out. How easy is that! thank you
July 3rd, 2010 at 8:09 am
@ groovysoul
Thank you so much,buddy. I also spend so much time on searching the button code. and now I just found out. really Thanks.
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