[thelist] authnet - how do you store the required fields untilthey are sent?

Nan Harbison nan at nanharbison.com
Tue Dec 18 12:46:18 CST 2007


Hassan,
I was going to store the authorize.net transaction id, but not any of the
credit card info. Can I reverse/adjust a transaction with only the id or do
I need to keep the last four digits and exp date as well?
Thanks for your help!
Nan

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untilthey are sent?

On Dec 18, 2007 8:17 AM, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:

> Authorize.net (and other online payment systems) require a bunch of 
> required fields, of course, and I need to first have the sign up form 
> page and then the credit card info form page.  I have the form action 
> as self, and if all the sign up info is entered, the credit card form 
> shows up. Is storing the fields in session variables the best way to do
this...

That's what I do, but in a Java environment where session data isn't written
to disk.

Can you configure your PHP instance to use the database to persist session
data?

Also, consider keeping the entire transaction as a record in the DB; that
way you can also save Authorize.net's transaction id plus the last four
digits and expiration date of the CC, which you'll need if you have to
reverse or adjust a transaction.

FWIW,
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