Paypal- adding quantity available coding! help pls!!

[woodward007]

Hi Guys,
can anyone help me with any coding/guidance for adding a quantity counter with my paypal check out instant pay coding?


i have limited stock and don't want people buying when i have none left. Is there a way to stop people buying after a certain quantity i allow in the coding?

please help!!!

Most appreciated!

Chris Woodward

http://www.geocities.com/dogclothing

[Khalid Ali]

best place to ask this question will be to contatc paypal people.Since they are the one who would know best about their product.

[woodward007]

Ali,
i tried paypal and they replied as--- don't know (great)! they said to see on web scripting sites or pay a web designer. Are there any free check out counter stocks out out there? I mean there must be people with the same problem as me?

Cheers Chris

[txmail]

You would need some type of inventory database that you would have to program to check and see how many items are in inventory. I have a template that uses ASP and MySQL if you would like it, you would just have to change the template and get some hosting somewhere that has access to MySQL. See http://houston.dyndns.us/store/

[woodward007]

hi tx mail!
thanks for replying, I am v new to designing websites and doing anything other than cutting and pasting code can tend to take a long time for me to understand.

Are there no other companies like paypal that offer the quantity counter within the checkout--- a type of checkout generator where i fill in a details.


I appreciate your help


Cheers

Chris

[txmail]

Well the thing is that somewhere on the server you have to be able to have access to some type of database or file that will have the amount of itmes that you have in inventory. I am not too familiar with Javascript so I am not sure if you can have it read and write files from the server but that might be a possibility. I think a database would be the easiest way though. I think ASP is the easiest language to learn but you might want to try out PHP or ColdFusion, which ever one seems best for you. Sorry I could not be of more assistance in this. Good luck though.