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This was fixed here: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-3130

This will be part of 2.1. If you need it in 2.0 feel free to backport the patch which can be found here: http://fisheye.civicrm.org/changelog/CiviCRM?cs=14534

We used to overwrite the name from the information returned by PayPal. This has also been fixed in 2.1. I'm not sure what we do with the address information, so if you do test, please report back your findings.

lobo

We used to overwrite the name from the information returned by PayPal. This has also been fixed in 2.1. I'm not sure what we do with the address information, so if you do test, please report back your findings.

This is actually what I'm interested in.  We would like for the first and last names to be updated in CiviCRM if the PayPal IPN returns something different for those fields, or at the very least record it somewhere so that we can retrieve it.  We are using 2.0.3 and this doesn't seem to be happening, though the above snippet would seem to indicate that it should have for versions prior to 2.1.

Anyone have any information on this?

Thanks,  Nathan

Turns out that the contact name wasn't getting updated in our version (2.0.3) because the relevant lines (195-198) of PayPalIPN.php were commented out ... the lines that make a call to the function createContact(). What's I'm going to do now is to write another function that simply drops the first/last name as reported by PayPal into some custom fields that I've created through the web interface.  It's important for us to know the name of the person as reported by PayPal, but like most people, we don't want the original name to be overwritten.  I'll post back here when I come up with something, just in case it might be of any use to anyone else.

Per my last comment that I'd post back here with my solution, here it is.  Note that this seems to work fine for v2.0.3, but I haven't tested it with anything else.

1) Create a custom data group for the PayPal data you want to capture.
    * I named the data group "PayPal Data"
    * Added two fields: First name, Last name (both alphanumeric)
       (You could add more and capture as much or little of the data as you want)
    * Make special note of the new field IDs in the table civicrm_custom_field
       (There's probably some better way to do this using an official API)

2) Edit ./CRM/Core/Payment/BaseIPN.php and add the following function, you must edit it to reflect the IDs you grabbed in step 1.

function updateFromPayPal( &$input, &$ids ) {
    # custom_23 is group "PayPal Data" field "First name"
    # custom_24 is group "PayPal Data" field "Last name"
    $params = array (
        'contact_id' => $ids['contact'],
        'contact_type' => 'Individual',
        'custom_23' => $input['first_name'],
        'custom_24' => $input['last_name']
    );
    require_once 'api/v2/Contact.php';
    $status = &civicrm_contact_add($params);
    return true;
}

3) Edit ./CRM/Core/Payment/PayPalIPN.php and add the following block to the function single() somewhere near the top:

if ( ! $this->updateFromPayPal( $input, $ids ) ) {
    return false;
}

Now the first/last name reported by PayPal will be saved in these custom data fields for the contact.  Hopefully this could be of use to someone else.