[thelist] setting up website page to accept payment

[patrick]

Nan Harbison wrote:
> HI All,
>  
> I have created a form for users to fill out with information needed to
> "join" the community. The form action is self, where all the data is cleaned
> and entered into the database. I am using PHP. My client finally chose
> authorize.net to collect payments through, which is fine. although I love
> the ease of implementation of paypal! 
>  
> Anyway, I am having trouble getting started with setting up the "enter
> payment info' page. Ecommerce website generally collect user information and
> then take the user to a page to collect credit card information. So what is
> the best practice here? Should I keep the form action as self and then
> redirect to the payment collection page, or should the payment collection
> page handle the data and then display the credit card info? Should I create
> a payment "class" as well as the user info class or should the payment
> information be part of the user class? Or no class needed?
>  
> I tried to google for this, but all I get is the websites of website payment
> collection companies, like paypal. Maybe someone has a tutorial to point me
> to? Please help!
>  
> TIA,
> Nan
> 


If you can see doing this often, i would recommend using/creating 
class(es) for this. http://phpclasses.org has some decent code and 
examples.

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patrick sanders
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