Setting up PayPal for Beginners
Buy Now Buttons

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Now Lets look at how to spice up the button by letting the user choose up to 2 options.

I am going to introduce 4 new input field names used by PayPal they are

hidden / on0 & on1 / Option type
These are used to send an item option name to paypal. Example: Color

Discussed Below / os0 & os 1 / Option Value
These are used to send an item option value to paypal. Example: BLUE

Now lets take a look at how to use them

This is where all those other input types I told you about will come in. Lets say you want to add a size and color option. There are 3 ways to do this:

1 Using radio buttons

Add this to your example form from earlier. Put it between the form tags because it is part of the form.

<input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Color">
<input type="radio" name="os0" value="Red">Red
<input type="radio" name="os0" value="White">White
<input type="radio" name="os0" value="Blue">Blue

So it looks like this
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="paypal" >
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="Payment@youremail.net">
<input type="hidden" name="undefined_quantity" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Your Item Name">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="Your Item Number">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1.00">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://success">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://cancel">
<input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Color">
<input type="radio" name="os0" value="Red">Red
<input type="radio" name="os0" value="White">White
<input type="radio" name="os0" value="Blue">Blue
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="click here">
</form>

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