User Guide

Button Manager SOAP API June, 2009 9
Website Payments Standard Button Manager API Overview
Button Hosting
<form target="paypal" action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-
bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="19218">
<table>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on0"
value="Color">Color</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os0">
<option value="Red">Red $10.00
<option value="Blue">Blue $8.00
<option value="Green">Green $12.00
</select> </td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on1"
value="Size">Size</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os1">
<option value="Small">Small
<option value="Large">Large
</select> </td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="image"
src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif" border="0"
name="submit" alt="">
<img alt="" border="0"
src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1"
height="1">
</form>
When you display a web page with this code, this button appears:
PayPal-generated code for a link would be as follows:
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-
xclick&hosted_button_id=19218
For a link, PayPal does not generate code for options.
Button Hosting
Buttons that you can view on the My Saved Buttons page of your PayPal profile are called
hosted buttons because they reside on PayPal. The API can create three kinds of buttons:
hosted, encrypted, and clear text.