title: Passing and Parse PayPal IPN Custom field
body: <p>I have setup a PayPal IPN file. When the user is at the site and press submit details about the transaction is uploaded to the db. The relevant id is sent via PayPal as the custom field. When payment complete IPN used to update DB as transaction completed based on id. </p>
  
  <p>All is fine.</p>
  
  <p>However, this is the tricky bit. I also need to update another table - a discount/coupon code db. The update is based on the code entered and also the number of times the code can still be used. Basically if it was 50 times, after used once the db would be updated with 49. So I need to pass the code and the remaining uses allowed so can say update table where code = XXXX (update new value of 49 etc).</p>
  
  <p>I can work out how to pass all these values in the custom field, but cannot work out how to parse them out again? Read about separating them with : etc, but need some advice from someone who has done before.</p>
  
  <p>This is how IPN details currently comes back:</p>
  
  <p>$custom = $_POST['custom'];</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>