[FX.php List] Credit Card Reader for mobile device + web publishing

[Anders Monsen]

I'm not yet using this in production, but you certainly can use Open URL 
with this method. (Forget my mention of the plugins, as this would not 
work with FM Go, and I was mixing two separate solutions). Rather, using 
either a PHP page with a web viewer, or Open URL, should work.

I have not tried iMag Pro without the CardSwipe software, as I set it up 
with a data url scheme so FM Go would open the app and then the card 
data would be returned to FM Go.

The script you run from Fm Go would then parse the data from the card, 
and send the valid information. What I was looking for when I wrote this 
wasn't necessarily CC info, but rather badge reading methods. What I 
discovered when reading cards, was the different credit cards would 
return information formatted in different ways, so your script probably 
would need to be able to ID the type, and then parse the values 
accordingly. All text parsing, I think.

I think the better option would be to push CC data from CardSwipe to a 
web server with a PHP page via a web viewer, and you then can use an API 
that works for PHP to process the CC info, return data to FMP (Go), to 
receive confirmation. This would be akin to processing via a web site, 
but all handled within FM Go and the connection to the server. However, 
there are potential issues with connectivity to consider, which I have 
not tried.

--
Anders


On 3/20/13 2:44 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
> It sounds like, from reading the specs on this device, that you could 
> write a script to capture the card data.
>
> I use a script now that uses card readers to capture a CC's two 
> tracks; I then parse it out and run the transaction using Plastic.
>
> My client's been hoping that we could find something like this; since 
> plugins don't work in FileMaker Go, what I'll probably do is use PHP 
> to run the transaction--I capture the card info in the device on an 
> iPhone, then use openURL to run the PHP page and get the results back 
> to me in the database on the iPhone.
>
> I didn't read Ander's article, but I wonder if he's doing some 
> variation of that; using a standard PHP page like the AIM page I use 
> for Authorize.net <http://Authorize.net>, it'd be easy enough to get 
> the card info from the swiper and then do the processing...
>
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> On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com 
> <mailto:jschwartz at exit445.com>> wrote:
>
>> Anders,
>>
>> Thanks for the great article.
>>
>> Are you saying that is not feasible to use the iMagPro and submit the 
>> card data directly to a web page form, with or without the CardSwipe 
>> software?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>
>
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