PayPal PHP Solution?

4rxsid

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).

peppino

check out http://www.scientifantastic.com/paypal

4rxsid

thanks for the info. any examples of sites using it? what does one get for the $10 fee? 1 script? many scripts? do you need the paypal SDK or any part of it? why the need for a database?

zimy24

or check this one out straight from zend 🙂

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-paypal.php

-zimy

danjfoley

4rxsid wrote:
.better yet, has anyone on this board successfully installed PayPal's PHP SDK?

I have installed and have it working in my system. If you might need some assistance email me at dan@micamedia.com.

genabit

peppino wrote:
check out http://www.scientifantastic.com/paypal

I signed up for this script three days ago and although promised an instant download, instead I was told an email would be sent to me to download the script, which I never received, I emailed him and it has gone unanswered, maybe he is on vacation, but instant is not one two or three days later, its supposed to be instant.... while it is only ten dollars, I guess you get or don't get what you pay for.