How to use Google Technologies

How to Process Order Response for Google Checkout
In this article I am going to look at what you need to do to process the returned response from the Google Checkout API.

This article assumes you have read the first article and by the point of reading this article have managed to pass an order into Google Checkout, and got through the process to the thank you screen.

NOTE

This article also assumes that they are no errors in anything, and all API transactions Google Checkout sends baack are received and processed withut any problems.

I will address some problems you may encounter in my next article.

So how do you process the response from Google Checkout.

Prerequisite

Before we begin please make sure that you have the following be going on.

1. An understanding of Classic ASP and how XML works
   
2. Both a Google Checkout Account and Google Checkout Sandbox Account
   
3. A Copy of the Classic ASP Sample Code - Get a Copy Here

Your website should already be at the point where all product information is passed to Google Checkout and you can complete a transaction with any problems.

Step 1 - Check your settings

The first thing to do is to make sure that you are actually asking Google Checkout to send you some sort of response.

For more on this article see my Google Blog google-checkout-api.blogspot.com

Ok so you know how to search on Google, thats the easy part.

1. Now what if you want to know if your website is listed in the Google index.

Type in the search box site: followed by your url

For Example
site:http://www.squidoo.com/googletechnologies

You can also use site: to just search a particular website for something.

For Example

stuff on BBC site:http://www.bbc.co.uk

2. Now we know that we are listed in the Google Index, we need to know what information Google holds about our website, and when did it pay us a visit.

Type in the search box cache: followed by your url

For Example
cache:http://www.squidoo.com/googletechnologies

3. Now what about if you want to know where you website is mentioned and who is linking to you.

Type in the search box link: followed by your url

For Example
link:http://www.squidoo.com/googletechnologies

4. Now what if you are just wanting to know what something means, again just ask Google

Type in the search box define: followed by the word you want a definition for

For Example
define:Google

5. Now what if you are wanting to know if someone else is using your title.

Type in the search box intitle: followed by the title you are looking for

For Example
intitle:you stole my title

You can do the same thing if you want to know if a certain word is used

Type in the search box intext: followed by the word you are looking for

For Example
intext:world

Ok so we have some basics, but what if you are looking for some documents online, you don't really want every document and thing under the sun being returned.

So, say we are looking for a pdf order form.

Type in the search box the name of the form filetype: followed by the file type you are looking for such as pdf, doc, jpg or what ever

For Example
order form filetype:pdf

this will restrict your search to only return the file type you entered

Happy Searching
SeanJC - AJAX and GIS Developer
and dont forget to checkout my Google Blog