[FX.php List] PayPal integration?

[Joel Shapiro]

Thanks everybody for your comments!

This is still in the proposal stage.  If it goes through and I hit any snags along the way, I may be back ;)

Best,
-Joel


On May 14, 2012, at 5:16 AM, BEVERLY VOTH wrote:

> What Steve said. 
> 
> I've been integrating payment gateways for a long time. None of them seem to work the way I want! If you can find one that allows a "silent post" AND if you are using HTTPS on your server (to capture the data that needs to be secure), then you can get your forms and UI the way you want. I *never* STORE the data which shouldn't be stored (ssn, etc.), but pass it on to the HTTPS gateway. Then with silent post, you should get a silent response (authorization code, etc.) This makes it seamless to your user.
> 
> But then people seem to like PayPal. Especially if they have their accounts and can use them for payment instead of retyping everything.
> 
> Beverly
> 
> 
> On 14 May 2012, at 2:58 AM, Steve Winter wrote:
> 
>> Hey Joel
>> 
>> My experience has been that it's a bit more 'chatty', particularly if you're PaymentsPro (so both the direct payment and Express checkout), i.e. there are multiple calls made to the API, then the user is redirected, then more calls are needed once they're back.
>> 
>> The SDK code is useful to see how to get started, but note that certainly the PHP nap sample code provided is out of date in the names of a number of the 'names' that it uses. 
>> 	SDK: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/paypal-sdk-index
>> 	API reference: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/api
>> 
>> One other thing well worth mentioning is that when using the Sandbox to do your testing, you need to create a merchant sandbox account, implement that as the merchant in your test code, then create other test accounts in the sandbox and use the card and/or account details which the sandbox creates for testing - any other pp accounts, or credit card numbers will fail…
>> 	Sandbox: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/api
>> 	Sandbox user guide: https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/CA/en_US/files/developer/PP_Sandbox_UserGuide.pdf
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> 
>>> Before I head down the rabbit hole by myself, I thought I'd ask around: 
>>> Has anyone integrated PayPal payments into their site or shopping cart?  Any comments or tips?
>>> 
>>> TIA,
>>> -Joel_______________________________________________
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