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Paypal iframe fix

The problem happens when using Internet Explorer (IE7 or IE8) in combination with Windows Vista/Windows 7. What happens is paypal doesn’t understand what gets sent over from your web page. What happens is Windows Vista security interferes with the code somehow.

Luckily the fix is probably simpler than you’d imagine. All you need to do is add a ‘new’ or ‘blank’ target to your form post whether its in your paypal button code or shopping cart code.

Below is a fixed version using target=”new”

<?php echo $action; ?>” method=”post” id=”checkout” target=”_new”>

Once this is in place when the user clicks on checkout or buy now it will open a new window for paypal and the error is gone!