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Create a Web storefront using PHP, Derby and PayPal, Part 2: Collecting payments

Also, creating shopping carts and storing their data with Derby

Tyler Anderson (tyleranderson5@yahoo.com), Freelance Writer, Stexar Corp.

Tyler Anderson graduated with a degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2004 and is currently in his last semester as a master's student in computer engineering. In the past, he worked as a database programmer for DPMG.com, and he is currently an engineer for Stexar Corp., based in Beaverton, Ore.

Summary: This series chronicles the building of a Web storefront in PHP using PHP Data Objects to access a Derby database. The storefront includes a user manageable shopping cart that allows item purchases using PayPal, and includes the ability for merchants to notify customers via e-mail on successful orders automatically. Part 2 covers creating shopping carts and making payments via PayPal.

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Date: 15 Nov 2005
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (776 KB | 40 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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For an excellent article on integrating PHP with Derby/Cloudscape, see "Connecting PHP applications to Apache Derby."
Learn how to configure IBM Cloudscape V10.0 and IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) V8.2 servers for access from PHP V4.x and PHP V5.x "Develop IBM Cloudscape and DB2 Universal Database applications with PHP."
For a document that describes the PayPal features for managing orders, including Instant Payment Notification, see the PayPal Order Management Integration Guide.
For more information about Instant Payment Notification, read the PayPal Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide.
Try hosting your cart with PayPal Shopping Cart, instead of in a local database.
Check out PayPal's Testing Instant Payment Notification.
Visit PayPal Developer Central to access the PayPal Sandbox test environment, Website Payments testing, Instant Payment Notification, and Payment Data Transfer.
To access the PayPal Sandbox, log in to PayPal Developer Central first.
Consider using this PayPal IPN handler for a different style of Instant Payment Notification handler.
To learn about the differences between the open source Apache Web server and IBM's version, and view demonstrations of IBM's version running a well-known PHP application, see the developerWorks article "Hosting PHP applications on the IBM HTTP Server."
For information about getting Apache V2 and PHP V4.x to work together on Linux, read the Apache 2 and PHP Installation guide.
Learn more about PHP data objects and their capabilities in the PHP Manual.
Various HTML form input data you may want to use for representing attributes are available at w3.org.
Visit the IBM Tivoli information center to learn more about the SQL syntax and items.
For a series of tutorials designed to broaden your PHP skills, see "Learning PHP, Part 1," Part 2, and Part 3.
Visit the developerWorks Open source zone for extensive how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products.