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2. Change the starting orderid number to a higher number such as 1000 or 10000. This can be
done from a command line or with the aid of a database management tool such as phpMyAdmin.
2.28.3.9 PayPal - Suspected Payment Manipulation
After PayPal payment, the following message is received by the AShop administrator.
Suspected payment manipulation: customer@emailaddress.com, firstname, lastname, productid, inv#,
IP address
The money was recieved thru paypal, but the order is not recorded within AShop and the receipt is not
sent to the customer.
This message is sent when PayPals IPN verification reports the payment as invalid. This should only
occur if the payment for some reason haven't been transfered by PayPal, for instance if a customer tries
to send the form fields manually to cheat the order.php script in AShop, but sometimes PayPal brings
their IPN servers down for maintenance for a short period which could also cause this. If you find that the
payment has really been received in your PayPal account you can go ahead and ship the products to
your customer and use the Incomplete/Failed Orders report on the page Customers->Sales Reports in
your admin panel to activate the order and make it appear in the regular sales report instead.
2.28.3.10 PayPal Curl Error
After payment is made using PayPal, the following error message is received from PayPal.
Curl Error! The Curl PHP extension returned the error message: 6 during communication with PayPals
IPN server!
The error number 6 has the following meaning: "Couldn't resolve host. The given remote host was not
resolved." This indicates that there is something wrong with the DNS on the server, making it unable to