Forum OpenACS Development: Has anyone written a Paypal gateway?

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Posted by Janine Ohmer on
And if not, why not? I've done some searching and have seen several people mentioning they were thinking of working on one, and a bunch of people looking for one, but no-one actually announcing anything. Is it really hard to get it working or something? Any insight would be very much appreciated before I dig myself a really deep hole. ;)
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Posted by Frank Bergmann on
Hi Janine,

we've been thinking about it, but have not started any work on it yet.

I guess a fully automatic integration is going to be difficult because of security etc. We actually thought of reading in a PayPal CSV or something similar.

Bests,
Frank

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Posted by Torben Brosten on
AFAICT, more features need to be added to the ecommerce package before a paypal gateway would meet the requirements of the business rules on page 17 of the Paypal Integration Guide[1]. Some of the requirements have been added to the bugtracker as suggestions/"to do"s (for other reasons).

Alternatively, one could add a parameter to ecommerce, that when set, passes the shopping-cart data to paypal for processing[2]. You would need to create a thank-you page to go with it. This is the quickest implementation method, but has many drawbacks.

1. https://www.paypal.com/en_US/pdf/PP_WebsitePaymentsPro_IntegrationGuide.pdf

2. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_pdn_howto_checkout_outside

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Posted by Andrew Grumet on
I haven't attempted any beautiful abstractions but here is some nuts and bolts code for anyone who's interested:
    set success_p 0
    set tx [ns_queryget tx]
    if { [string equal $tx ""] } {
        #No paypal data!  Take appropriate action, probably
        #return or error.
    }

    set token "(your token)"

    #Retrieve transaction data from paypal.
    set qsset [ns_set new qsset]
    ns_set put $qsset tx "$tx"
    ns_set put $qsset at $token
    ns_set put $qsset cmd "_notify-synch"
    set results [ns_httpspost https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr "" $qsset]
    ns_set free $qsset

    set vars [list txn_id mc_currency payment_gross first_name last_name payer_email custom]

    #Extract transaction data.
    foreach line [split $results \n] {
        if { [string equal $line SUCCESS] } {
            set success_p 1
        }
        set info [split $line \=]
        if { [llength $info] == 2 && [lsearch $vars [lindex $info 0]] >= 0 } {
            set [lindex $info 0] [lindex $info 1]
        }
        if { [string equal [lindex $info 0] payer_email] } {
            set payer_email [ns_urldecode $payer_email]
        }
    }

    #Validate transaction data and pack local data structure, a list suitable for use with array get.
    set txn_vars [list]
    foreach var $vars {
        if { ![info exists $var] } {
            set success_p 0
        } else {
            lappend txn_vars $var [set $var]
            if { [string equal $var custom] } {
                #take whatever special actions needed for
                #your custom var (e.g. database key)
            }
        }
    }

    return [list $success_p $txn_vars]

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Posted by Monica Jenner on
I am using paypal for my online store, it is working fine, but some of my customers says that paypal does not work in some regions, well i bought the payment gateway from here, you can also check your business.

https://payment-gateways.net/

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Posted by Gustaf Neumann on
you are picking up here a very old thread. Do you have an OpenACS integration, or is you posting not related with OpenACS?