I run a design company that is dedicated to helping local bands develop their image. I do custom php programming for the bands I help, things like custom guestbooks, tour pages, news updaters, links, etc..
Here is what I would like to do. Many musicians are now turning to itunes to sell their music, but itunes is doing a 40/60 split, bands are making only 59 cents a song. Not to mention any additional fees paypal will charge for the purchase of the songs, etc.
I have a php book that I've been using as my bible for creating my backend stuff. I am looking for a php script that will take the variables sent from paypal (or any other ecommerce type site) and create a temporary link that will contain an mp3 for download.
I was thinking about this some more, and perhaps the easiest way to do this would be to have the thankyou page set a cookie on the users browser and that cookie would allow the link to work. If no cookie is present the user will get forwarded to another page.
Anyone have any suggestions or comments? about this? Has anyone tried this yet?
Thanks,
-Binxalot