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Did this ever get resolved ?

I keep hoping someone will address this paricular problem, but it seems nobody has.

I'm having the same issue. "we could not find a contact id" and several functional problems which generate Civicrm.log entries to the same effect.

The problem goes away in legacy mode. Did you ever get it fixed ?

Oh, I'm leaving legacy on too, for now. The problem is, there seem to be some other issues which seem to be related to this bug, which the legacy mode doesn't seem to fix.

Want to be more specific as to what other issues are related to the bug. This will allow us to ensure that it is fixed with the J1.5 / C2.1 combination

lobo

Hi Donald,

I'm perfectly willing to share the other issues, though I have some tinkering to do before I can provide anything that would be meaningful to the developers. I'm trying to sort "my mistakes" from "actual problems which need to be fixed for everyone".  I'll post some info for you when that personal work is out of the way. It's possible that the other related issues will be corrected along the way.

- Noah

Yay !

That worked, and so far I can confirm that some of the related problems I alluded to have also been fixed.

The symptoms I was experiencing while not in Legacy Mode:
0. "we could not find a contact id"
1. Couldn't view the dashboard in the Joomla administrator backend
2. The dashboard menu link seemed to contain redundant "task=" and "option=" directives, which didn't seem to add any new information.
3. Attempting to edit or update the status of contributions & event registrations which were stuck in "pending" status resulted in an unrecoverable error
4. Attempting to email a contact resulted in an unrecoverable error. Error messages about "not being of type Integer"
5. A mild, but persistent headache.

Thanks for the fix !

The one remaining issue I have... that I'm about to check, is that the IPN from Paypal Standard wasn't working (in either mode).
This could easily be some misconfiguration on my part. We'll see if fixing all this other stuff makes tracking that down any easier.

Any hints on that front ? I can leave the API field blank if i'm using Paypal Standard, right ?

Where would I look to find records of Paypal having attempted an IPN ?

Full disclosure: I've had this working on a Drupal installation before, and it was no big deal. When Civicrm 2.0.x came out I not only upgraded from 1.8 (step by step), but also moved my civicrm install over to Joomla. (we had been using Joomla for our main page, and Drupal just for Civicrm stuff previously).

Turns out it actually isn't hard to move back and forth. Very doable.

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right, but entering a new payment processor of type "PayPal Website Payments Standard" doesn't ask for one either. All you need to enter is your email account against "Merchant Account Email". And let "Site URL" / "Recurring Payments URL" be there with default values.
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Hmmm... I've tried this a many many times now, and the IPN doesn't seem to be working.

On the upside of things, the money still goes where it needs to.. and it is possible to update the transactions manually... and that behavior is good (sends the email, updates the attendees, etc.)

Also, the Website Payments Standard still has an empty form field for API URL for both the live and testing section. This is still the case when I create a "fresh" payment processor of type "PayPal Website Payments Standard". (which is to say "it asks")

I added the debugging code suggested elsewhere, and the only record that shows up seems to be from the "Thank You" page once Paypal returns. Some help please ?


Jun 16 18:40:33  [info] $payPalURL = https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/xclick/business=ols_1189637826_biz%40nwdak.org&notify_url=http%3A//www.oldlibrarystudio.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/ipn.php%3Freset%3D1%26contactID%3D407%26contributionID%3D161%26module%3Dcontribute&item_name=Online+Contribution%3A+Copy+of+Support+Creative+Teens+%21&quantity=1&undefined_quantity=0&cancel_return=http%3A//www.oldlibrarystudio.org/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_civicrm%26task%3Dcivicrm/contribute/transact%26_qf_Main_display%3D1%26cancel%3D1%26qfKey%3Dc50100d7da71afc10379ecaa310ed9b2&no_note=1&no_shipping=1&return=http%3A//www.oldlibrarystudio.org/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_civicrm%26task%3Dcivicrm/contribute/transact%26_qf_ThankYou_display%3D1%26qfKey%3Dc50100d7da71afc10379ecaa310ed9b2&rm=2&currency_code=USD&invoice=8dc147ac7ed4aa413a15ca363efa0c73&cmd=_xclick&amount=500

seems like there is an issue with one of your upgrades. This url should work, but does not:

http://www.oldlibrarystudio.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/ipn.php

Can u edit this file: /home/.marks/mrnoah/www.oldlibrarystudio.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/civicrm.config.php

and change people to www

that should get you to the next step, which hopefully will get IPN to work properly

lobo