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I'm trying to get E-Junkie's notifications to work with my backend and I can't seem to get it working. (And yes, I've read the documentation page "Integrating E-junkie With 3rd-Party & Custom Services": http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.integration.htm)

My software application is using the open source Aquatic Prime framework for registration (http://www.aquaticmac.com). The long and short of it is that the Aquatic Prime PHP code accepts an IPN notification, then churns out a secure license file which gets emailed to the user. Shine (http://clickontyler.com/blog/2009/08/shine-an-indie-mac-dashboard) implements the Aquatic Prime stuff and adds a bunch of other features to it.



I have my E-Junkie account set up to send the Payment Variable Information to the correct URL. I've gotten E-Junkie properly implemented on my website and my server logs show a 200 response from my server when placing an order, so I know that E-Junkie is working properly. I can manually get my backend to send off a valid license file, so I know the PHP email is working. I can't, however, get the E-Junkie notification to trigger the license generation code automatically.

Does anyone have any experience integrating E-Junkie with Aquatic Prime or Shine that can point me in the right direction?

Offhand, I can think of two reasons your registration script might not accept our IPN-style Integration submissions: either it's trying/expecting to validate the IPN with PayPal (which would fail since we are not PayPal, and we already validate the original IPN with PayPal in the first place anyway), or it may be getting confused by the extra fields we add to the basic IPN data set, to pass certain order data we collect that PayPal does not.

I would suggest sending my speculations above to the Aquatic Prime tech support staff, along with a link to our Integration page, for them to consider (or just send them a link to this forum thread). They might be able to provide you with a modified PHP script, or give instructions for modifying it yourself, to workaround the issues I described or any other issues they may identify about using our Integration with their script.

Bingo, that was it. The provided PHP script was checking back to PayPal for verification. Once I took that out and just had it work with the POST data from E-Junkie, it worked just fine