PayPal Webhooks in Sandbox not working (Null Data)

Asked Oct 23 '17 at 12:03

Active Oct 24 '17 at 00:42

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I'm having issues with setting up webhooks with PayPal.

Actions Taken: I have set up a hook to alert me of completed payments. I do notice that PayPal does hit the requested url. However when I do a complete log of $_POST, $_Get and $_COOKIES there is nothing sent.

My understanding as that the server is meant to send data in the POST form.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Update: Solution to this FOUND!!!

$request_body = file_get_contents('php://input');
$request_body = json_decode($request_body);
$request_body = print_r($request_body, true);

I found that PayPal posts the JSON string a different way other then via POST. The above code is how I was able to retrieve the required data.

Thanks again guys for the input.

edited Oct 24 '17 at 00:42

asked Oct 23 '17 at 12:03

Hodds

Have you tried hitting your endpoint in postman the way you expect PayPal to be sending it? – Cruncher Oct 23 '17 at 12:11
are you getting the paypal return object, if so you you print that and check!! – Debakant Mohanty Oct 23 '17 at 12:13
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8945879/how-to-get-body-of-a-post-in-php – Cruncher Oct 23 '17 at 12:16
Yeah I'm doing a $post_data = print_r($_POST, true); and dumping the out put to a file which is showing blank arrays. – Hodds Oct 23 '17 at 12:21
I found the solution, please see update above. Thanks again guys. – Hodds Oct 24 '17 at 00:43

PayPal Webhooks in Sandbox not working (Null Data)

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