[thelist] Accepting Credit Cards online

[Samuel Richardson (Outwide @ Home)]

That helps allot, thanks heaps!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Baratta" <Anthony at Baratta.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Accepting Credit Cards online


> Adt 09:30 PM 8/27/2002, Sam Richardson wrote:
> >It will be subscription based, although it won't be time based, but usage
> >based. The code for this is written already though. I'm using PHP.
>
> Piece of pie. Depending upon the Gateway System you want to use, you'll
> either have some "components" to integrate or will have to roll your own.
>
> For the baseline setup, you'll need to have OpenSSL (
> http://www.openssl.org/ ) available to make SSL connections directly with
> the gateway (unless the authorization company has it's own component to
> encrypt the transmission). You'll also want to install mod_ssl (
> http://www.modssl.org/ ) for Apache after that. Then recompile OpenSSL
> support into PHP ( --with-openssl[=DIR] ).
>
> Don't forget to order an SSL cert for your server from Thawte or Verisign
> or someone else (I prefer Thawte), and install that for your Virtual
> Service in Apache. Remember that each SSL cert requires a unique IP,
unless
> you get a catch-all cert that will with *.domain.com. But those are
expensive.
>
> Your gateway provider will have instructions on how to communicate with
> them. Basically you use the fopen function (
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php ) with the https: and pass
> the collected credit card info to the gateway. The gateway will respond
> with some information (yes/no, authorization code, error messages et.al.)
>
> Take that info and fork appropriately: e.g. pass/fail.
>
> Remember that the SSL encrypted transaction I'm discussing is between your
> server and the credit card gateway. You should have had a separate SSL
> encrypted transaction between the user's browser and your server when you
> collected the credit card information.
>
> Hope that helps.
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