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  Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 04:06 AM

  Can a module be developed that could be hooked to other modules to accept credit card payments? If so, is anyone interested and how much would it cost me?
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  If this isn't possible, what would it take to update a module like PayPalCart to accept credit cards?
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  Or better yet, how about a plugin for Pagesetter?
  
  Any ideas or thoughts about this and interest from developers would be greatly appreciated.

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• slam
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 08:55 AM

  I still use a slightly adapted pncPayPal module at several sites, also with zk 1.1.1, and with commercial US PayPal accounts (which are the only ones offering direct credit card payment without membership). Besides, I simply create direct links and payment buttons.
  
  But of course a general hookable module (or plugin) would be a much better solution - the probably best person to do it is Robert (rgasch), the developer of zWebStore.
  
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• katrinav
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 05:52 AM

  interesting topic. thanks for sharing
  
  

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• rgasch
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 06:01 AM

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  Can a module be developed that could be hooked to other modules to accept credit card payments

  
  
  Do you mean direct API integration or paying through the PayPal site?
  
  Greetings
  R

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• ccandreva
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 07:11 AM

  I actually have a paypal module I wrote a year ago that hooks to the feproc API. It was written specifically to enable payment in an feproc pipeline.
  
  Would this help ?

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• bronto
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 07:18 AM

  Questions:
  
  1) pncPaypal - does it work unmodified with Zk 1.1.1? If not, slam, can you share yours?
  
  2) feproc - FormExpress is still alive? I haven't used that in years. ccandreva can you share what you're doing?

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• ccandreva
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 07:33 AM

  It was for a project I started maybe a year and a half ago, when there wasn't a release for Zikula 1 in sight. The site has since been ported to Zikula, and while I don't know if there is active work on FormExpress or FEproc, I have both modified locally to work on Zikula.
  
  I had asked at one point if they were worth continuing, and was basicly told pnForms obsoleted them. I'm not sure I agree, as I've had completely non-technical people set up mailback forms with FormExpress.
  
  Anyway, the paypal feproc plugin takes as parameters (in feproc itself)
  amount, OrderDesription, username, password, and signature. It's a wrapper to the PHP demo code from Paypal, using the simple authorization scheme. The need I had at the time was for a one price fee when submitting a particular form (a job bank posting, implemented in Pagesetter).
  
  I've used it elsewhere to process payments by calling the feprocapi calls "manually" (for lack of a better term). I only ever implemented single payment credit card processing, nothing else.

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• bronto
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 08:45 AM

  Would you mind sharing? Depending on the status of pncPayPal, I might want to use this for a single product site I'm working on for a friend.
  
  
  
  edited by: bronto, Jun 18, 2009 - 08:45 PM

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• remmingtonshowdown
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 08:48 AM

  Wendell,
  
  Couldn't you write a plugin for Pagesetter that wrapped the paypal code (they have a lot of free sample code on the site and a wizard). This would allow you to pass Pagesetter publication parameters to the plugin and as such to the paypal code...
  
  I've never used paypal's APIs but they look stupid simple and the wizard essentially creates all one would need... so it appears...
  
  Perhaps a bit of explanation as to how this whole shebang is to be used can help us find a solution... is this a webstore with each Pagesetter pub representing an item?
  
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• ccandreva
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 08:48 AM

  Sure. You want all three (FormExpress / feproc too ?)
  
  I had thought about releasing my version, with the lack of interest it didn't seem worth tracking down the original authors and asking the status.
  
  For the paypal, I think I have to extricate it from that project. Since it was just an pnfeproc.php file I think I included with the custom module I wrote for that site.
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 09:04 AM

  Wow, thanks for all the discussion on this topic! I didn't expect to generate this much.
  
  

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  Perhaps a bit of explanation as to how this whole shebang is to be used can help us find a solution... is this a webstore with each Pagesetter pub representing an item?

  
  While I haven't completely thought the exact method through (that's part of the reason I posted), I'm generally thinking that the plugin would serve individual publications, each of which would contain a product. The plugin would provide the "add to cart" and "checkout" functionality and process the payments, after which the user would be directed to a thank you page.
  
  Ultimately, I would like the plugin to not just process PayPal payments, but also process credit card payments using the PayPal Website Payments Standard or Pro gateway services (which are similar to other gateways like Authorize.net and 2CheckOut). However, I would not be opposed to using Authorize.net or 2CheckOut to process credit cards instead of the PayPal Website Payments gateway. Initially though, I figured it would be easier to get the PayPal functionality in place first and then maybe add other plugins later for other gateway services. Or maybe combine it all into a module that could be used as a hook in most other modules.
  
  I prefer to use Pagesetter, but it would be nice to have the ability to use it with any module whether as a plugin or hook. My main goal right now though is to use Pagesetter to create a store and have a plugin that allows users to pay via PayPal or credit card.

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• remmingtonshowdown
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 12:02 PM

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  My main goal right now though is to use Pagesetter to create a store and have a plugin that allows users to pay via PayPal or credit card.
  

  
  
  Hmm, sounds like the making of pgStore... ;)
  
  I really thing that you might be best off simply writing a plugin that is called in the template that passes the publication data to the paypal API which in turn adds it to a paypal cart and handles the payment part... I would assume that all the paypal stuff would be handled offsite and on paypal.com but I'm sure they have API's that allow processing to be done on one's own site etc...
  
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• dks
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 19, 2009 - 07:36 AM

  integrating paypal into Pagesetter isn't difficult, but requires some reading.
  Your "add to cart" button is just a form where all the form variables are supplied by the Pagesetter publication. I'll post a link to paypal instructions and a Pagesetter template if anyone wants it.

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• arkanoyd
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 19, 2009 - 09:39 PM

  That's good. Could be useful for simple payements...

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• Paustian
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 26, 2009 - 03:33 AM

  Let me add a me too to the discussion. I would be very interested in using this for a textbook publishing site I have. Right now I am processing payments through paypal, but authorization for getting permission to use a group is manual. I have had this be automatic in the past, but something broke in the upgrade to zikula and I have not bothered to fix it. So I might be able to add some coding help once a module is in development. I will keep an eye on this thread for developments.

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