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PayPal PHP Solution?

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:47 am
by rxsid
Hi all,

I've been trying to implement PayPal's PHP SDK api solution into my web site to allow for a simple 'checkout' process, with no success and lots of stress :( I'm only offering 1 service for part of the site, so no product to sell and only a 1 time fee is charged. Very simple.
However, PayPal's PHP SDK has increadibly poor documentation and is difficult, at best, to install and get to work, however their monthly fee schedule is great...only $20/month.

I've used Card Services International, which had a very easy to integrate solution....but their monthly fee's have jumped to $50/month. That doesn't fit my sites' budget at the moment. I believe Authorize.net has similar fees so I have to rule that out as well. I've checked out 2checkout.com and I'm not comfortable with their solution of placing my 'services' or 'products' in their database, also...the user has to go to their site to complete the checkout. I would like my paying customers to 'stay' on my site for the checkout/confirmation.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for an alternative to PayPal that is 'reasonably' priced? I need a solution that includes a merchant account, or something like it (like PayPal)...not just a shopping cart as I've already built that. Or...better yet, has anyone on this board successfully installed PayPal's PHP SDK?

Thanks,
Gary

P.S. I'm on a shared, hosted server running PHP 4.4.0. with PEAR installed, cURL and openSSL (required for PayPal PHP SDK).

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:53 am
by anjanesh
You can try searching for it in PayPalDev.

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:20 pm
by rxsid
thanks for the reply anjanesh.

yup, i've tried PayPalDev....I've even posted two different questions there but have yet to hear anything back. As a matter of fact, if you search around that site, you'll find that I am not the only one with installation/configuration problems. Just about evenone else there critisizes PayPal's documentation and lack of examples (for PHP SDK) as well.

any other ideas?

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:16 am
by ruchit
are you using IPN or PDT? there are detailed PDFs available with examples. Infact, there are working sample files available for both.

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:29 pm
by rxsid
neither IPN or PDT. I'm using the PHP SDK api as mentioned in my post. those other solutions do indeed have examples and far better documention. however, the direct pay solution (api), is what i need, and for some bizzare reason...PayPal has poor documentation and lack of examples when it comes to their SDK's.

anyone else?