aahhhhh, dont you love it when you figure out how to do something you did know know was possible. i have found out that to do a paypal purchase button, you DONT need to use the actual one that is made when you use reamweaver, and i am sure you all know you can use a normal submit button with the paypal code instead. but what i didnt know how to do was use a regular text link to submit the info instead. not only use a text link instead, but how to do it withought even using a form and a submit button. well, if you didnt know already, i am here to tell you, it is posible.

no more ugly paypal buttons, and none of that huge spaceing that is created automatically when trying to put a form in a table. it is very simple. here is a sample link:
HTML:
<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=youremail@address.com&item_name=ITEM NAME HERE&item_number=item_number_here&amount=65.00¤cy_code=USD&shipping=3.00&shipping2=1.00&handling=3.00&no_shipping=0&no_note=0&return=http://www.yoursite.com/successlinkhere&cancel_return=http://www.yoursite.com/cancellinkhere&undefined_quantity=1&receiver_email=youremail@address.com">LINK GOES HERE</a>
as you can see, all the normal input values you would put in the paypal form and script to make the button take you to paypal to purchase a product, have all been embedded in to this simple link. each input value you would like to use in the normal form, can be dont in this link useing the "&" symbol to seperate what would be the input names and values of the form. check out
http://www.stgphoto.com/purchase.php to see the script in action. not fully completed for all pictures in the purchase section of the site yet, but will be finished by the end of the day. give me some feedback on what you think about this. I was pretty excited when i figured this out, and hopefully you will be too.

thanks for the comments, and i look forward to reading more. thanks.
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edit: I forgot to mention, you dont need all the different things in the link to make it work, you can remove the things that you may not want, like the success page and the cancel page, but deleat that part including the "&" symbol.
