Article: Affiliates via PayPal

I need someone who is intimate with PayPal technology, particularly custom "PayPal Encrypted Buttons" to write an article on "Building an affiliate program using PayPal Encrypted Buttons". I expect the article to cover the following topics in easy-to-understand (i.e. beginners can figure it out) language and screenshots*: 1) Setting up PayPal for custom Encrypted buttons. This involves generating and uploading a SSL certificate. 2) How to create a custom encrypted button using PayPal's certificate and the uploaded certificate. 3) How to create a simple affiliate program using PHP/MySQL. Assume new affiliates are manually entered into the system (e.g. SQLyog). Show how to integrate an affiliate ID into the encrypted button using PHP. 4) How to set up a basic IPN script. IPN script should be a PHP page that dumps data from PayPal into a MySQL table. 5) How to create a PHP page that processes the IPN-dumped table for affiliates and alters the affiliates table accordingly. 6) How to prepare the affiliates table into a format appropriate for PayPal MassPay using PHP. Set the affiliate rate at 5% of sales. Script should have two buttons: One to download the MassPay document. The other to reset the affiliates table for the next month. 7) How to use the MassPay file to pay the affiliates. * Include screenshots wherever it makes sense. Use PayPal Sandbox for the screenshots. Have some sort of disclaimer about the security of the whole setup. Copyright tweaks: You may publish the article on a website and/or blog. Either one or both could be yours but it should only be published in at most two locations. ## Deliverables Hyperlink (URL) of published article, blog entry, or both. ZIP file containing original materials. 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables): a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform Windows PayPal OpenSSL PHP 5.2.x MySQL