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paypal payment link, how to change it?

by manhal
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I just bought a website which is full of the paypal payment buttons with different values that links to the previous owner info.

Now I want to update these information to use my account instead of him, I know how to get a payment code from my paypal account but I just couldn't find an easy way to update all these links on my website (around 500 links) to use my info.

I was thinking to use a find~replace program to replace all occurrences of his_paypal@email.com to be updated to my_paypal@email.com but I think it is not that easy, any idea how can I best achieve this ?

thanks.
#change #link #payment #paypal
  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Most good text editors have a search and replace in files function that could do this very quickly.

    PS Pad is the one I like:

    editor PSPad - freeware HTML editor, PHP editor, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, C, HEX editor

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author manhal
    That is correct, I know how to do the find&replace thing, but the issue is there is no such thing like find "his_paypal@email.com" and replace it with "my_paypal@email.com" as it is all payment codes and I don't know how to use find&replace for that code which is different from a file to another .
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  • Profile picture of the author lvhardmoney
    Try NotePad++.
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    • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
      Originally Posted by manhal View Post

      That is correct, I know how to do the find&replace thing, but the issue is there is no such thing like find "his_paypal@email.com" and replace it with "my_paypal@email.com" as it is all payment codes and I don't know how to use find&replace for that code which is different from a file to another .
      Are you saying that the text you need to replace is different in all 500 links? Thats a completely different situation. Why isn't it something like find "his_paypal@email.com" and replace it with "my_paypal@email.com" or find "his payment code" and replace it with "your payment code"?

      If there really isn't a common pattern for find and replace it looks like you have a long manual task ahead of you!

      Originally Posted by lvhardmoney View Post

      Try NotePad++.
      As I said, "most good text editors" - NotePad ++ is no better (or worse) than PS Pad or UltraEdit or dozens of others. But the OP has claimed it is more than a simple search and replace, in which case neither would work.

      manhal, can you post an example of the code and illustrate why a "search & replace" won't do the job? Perhaps we can help.

      Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by manhal View Post

    I just bought a website which is full of the paypal payment buttons with different values that links to the previous owner info.
    Point of professionalism: the seller should fix this for you.

    If he won't, he's a jerk. He's banking on you taking so long to fix the site, he'll keep getting the sales himself for a while. You own the site, those should be your sales, and if he gets so much as a dime he'd damn well better be giving it to you. And since it's his fault you can't easily fix the links, he'd better be the one who has to get them fixed.

    If he won't fix those links, show you his PayPal statement, and give you any sales he made during the transition - leave him nasty feedback.
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