Creating custom PHP payment form
Development and Programming
Hi all,
Im completely new to EE (I did work with CodeIgniter before). Im a developer about to start working on an EE client site. I’ll have to create a custom PHP form that will process a CC payment with a payment processor. We’ll not be storing anything on our database. We’ll send the payment information to the processor and get the results.
But im not sure were to start. Should I create a module or an extension for this? or just to embed some PHP in the template? I would appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks, Nico
You could go the custom PHP in a template approach which would be the path with the least amount of friction. Or you could build a simple plugin or module. In that case the Function class will be your best friend.
Or you could just use exp:resso store (exp-resso.com/store), it’d manage something like this easily
Thanks both!
Assuming I go with the “custom PHP in template” path, could you give me some pointers on how to get started? Im a little lost.
- The HTML form goes directly in the template and not inside a “published” content, right?
- And all PHP processing code will be in that same template? I can’t have a separate .php file to process the form?
- What about valition? I used Codeigniter’s validation before and jquery…but not sure how to implement that here.
Any tips? Thanks a lot!
Nico
You could look at our open-source CI merchant library (https://github.com/crescendo/ci-merchant) for gateway integration code. If you’re not sure how to do this, then it doesn’t really make sense building it yourself when you could spend a fraction of the time/money just using an e-commerce system. Just my 2 cents though 😊
Thanks!
I have integrated several gateways processors before into normal PHP, so that’s not a problem. I was looking for some pointers on how to integrate it with EE in particular, since I don’t know enough of EE.
It’s a client website, so I have to work with the system they are using of course.
Should I be asking this questions in another section of this forum?
Thanks again for your time! Nico