colombian Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 I have done all sorts of things from scratch in PHP - including a shopping cart(front end), a CMS, etc. However, I have never done the processing of credit card part. I was wondering if someone experienced in that area could give me some general advice. The site that I will be working with will just be taking a donation. I just want to make it as secure as possible. Also, if you have a recommendation for credit card processing companies that don't charge an arm and a leg - that would also be great. Paypal may be an option, but I want to know how to do it the other way - for when that opportunity presents itself. Any advice on security, pitfalls, where to store and how to store credit card numbers (if at all - I assume those are passed to the processing company but not on our end). Any suggestions or code sample I should look at would also be helpful. (Or book recommendations). I've recently been working with transactions, and I'm pretty comfortable with them. Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/102405-e-commerce-questionspitfalls/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 There are PEAR credit card processing libraries you can go look up the documentation for. Go visit PEAR. PEAR You should be able to find what you need. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/102405-e-commerce-questionspitfalls/#findComment-524364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 the process is fairly standard.. Collect data securely send data via curl to a url of the payment gateways specifying. The format of the data to be sent is also specified by the payment processor... You will find may payment gateways have integration kits - I have seen the code in a few of them and to be honest they can be improved but you will get the idea... http://pear.php.net/package/Payment_Process/ is probably the thing darkwater was pointing you toward - I have yet to use it but pear packages are on the whole very good. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/102405-e-commerce-questionspitfalls/#findComment-524402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
colombian Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 I am not familiar with PEAR - though I have heard that term used often. What is the advantage of going with PEAR? I will read up on it. I'm wondering why I should use it over my own PHP / mysqli code. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/102405-e-commerce-questionspitfalls/#findComment-524430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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