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When paying with recurring payments on Paypal Sandbox I've got following error message - "The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again." It take me too long to figure is out but the problem was that the account was not verified. To make recurring payments work on Sandbox Paypal account, in additions to having your account to be upgraded to business account, you have you verify the sandbox account email address. Good luck

Following are operators you can use when create filter for Magento Api calls: from returns rows that are after this value (datetime only) to returns rows that are before this value (datetime only) eq returns rows equal to this value neq returns rows not equal to this value like returns rows that match this value (with % as a wildcard) nlike returns rows that do not match this value (with % as a wildcard) in returns rows where the value is in this array (pass an array in) nin returns rows where the value is not in this array (pass an array in) is null returns rows that are null notnull returns rows that are not null moreq gt returns rows greater than this value lt returns rows less than this value gteq returns rows greater than or equal to this value lteq returns rows less than or equal to this value finset And following are the lits of fields you can filter on using Product.List api call [0] => entity_id [1] => entity_type_id [2] => attribute_set_id [3] => type_id [4] =>...

I was looking for simple script to Back Up SQL Server Express database hosted on one of my servers. There are many articles explaining how to configure it to be done with SQL scripts and scheduled tasks, but what I found was much more useful (at least for me) Here is very powerful Backup, Zip and FTP Utility SQLBackupAndFTP software. It even has free version for those who don't need to schedule more than 2 DB backups.

Paypal own documentation about different payment methods is terrible. There are too many resources, different version and too many similar name. Following article explain in simple words all Paypal Payment Methods - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/paypal_c_aspnet.aspx#PayPalIntroduction This also includes C# code examples.