Get Paypal Payment Details on WooCommerce - php

Question

How can I get the payment details from Paypal like PaymentID, PaymentFirstName/LastName, and other details?

Answer 1

The code PayPal Standard integration uses valid-paypal-standard-ipn-request action to process the valid IPN response. You can use the same action to hook into the IPN and get/store any information you want.
To save additional information:
// Hook before the code has processed the order
add_action( 'valid-paypal-standard-ipn-request', 'prefix_process_valid_ipn_response', 9 );
function prefix_process_valid_ipn_response( $posted ) {
if ( ! empty( $posted['custom'] ) && ( $order = prefix_get_paypal_order( $posted['custom'] ) ) ) {
// Lowercase returned variables.
$posted['payment_status'] = strtolower( $posted['payment_status'] );
// Any status can be checked here
if ( 'completed' == $posted['payment_status'] ) {
// Save additional information you want
}
}
}
/**
* From the Abstract "WC_Gateway_Paypal_Response" class
*
* #param $raw_custom
*
* #return bool|WC_Order|WC_Refund
*/
function prefix_get_paypal_order( $raw_custom ) {
// We have the data in the correct format, so get the order.
if ( ( $custom = json_decode( $raw_custom ) ) && is_object( $custom ) ) {
$order_id = $custom->order_id;
$order_key = $custom->order_key;
// Nothing was found.
} else {
return false;
}
if ( ! $order = wc_get_order( $order_id ) ) {
// We have an invalid $order_id, probably because invoice_prefix has changed.
$order_id = wc_get_order_id_by_order_key( $order_key );
$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
}
if ( ! $order || $order->get_order_key() !== $order_key ) {
return false;
}
return $order;
}
You can find the PayPal variables here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNIntro/#id08CKFJ00JYK
The WC core also saves to the order a lot of the IPN data already. All data is saved to the order meta, so you can access it using get_post_meta or $order->get_meta('meta_key').
List by meta_key:
'Payer PayPal address' - The payer address
'Payer first name' - Payer first name
'Payer last name' - Payer last name
'Payment type' - Payment Type
'_paypal_status' - PayPal payment status