[thelist] Basic e-commerce

[Kevin Timmins]

I'm gonna be writing it in PHP and MySQL when i make it, Mostly i just want 
to know how payments actually work and how to process them. I've been 
checking out the paypal site and it looks like i can work my way through 
there easy enough.
Kev

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From: "Octavian Râsnita" <orasnita at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:05 PM
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Basic e-commerce

> What language you want to write your app in? And are you interested to 
> learn
> how the payment works, or how a full shopping cart with payment works?
>
> You can get the source code or just read the POD documentation from
> Business::PayPal:
> http://search.cpan.org/~phred/Business-PayPal-0.03/PayPal.pm
>
> or read about a full shopping cart (Mango) at:
> http://search.cpan.org/~claco/Mango-0.01000_13/lib/Mango.pm
>
> or search search.cpan.org for "shopping", "PayPal" or other things that
> interest you.
>
> You may port the things you will read from the POD documentation of those
> perl modules in other languages also.
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Timmins" <kipper_timmins at live.co.uk>
> To: "thelist" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:43 PM
> Subject: [thelist] Basic e-commerce
>
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> For a long time I have been interested in how it is possible to sell
>> things online. Designing the product pages is easy, my real question is
>> how do you process payments? Does anyone have any experience with 
>> building
>> this kind of website? This is in part as a response the the PayPal thread
>> by Bill Moseley because it looks like it is that kind of thing I should 
>> be
>> looking into, i just didn't want to steal the thread.
>>
>> So the scenario is, I have built and maintain a website which is
>> essentially a picture gallery of wildlife, however some customers may 
>> wish
>> to purchase a more professional print of a picture than they can print 
>> off
>> from the lower quality web versions.
>> So next to each picture there would be a button saying buy which would
>> redirect to a page with a unique id number so the picture could be
>> obtained by the website owners, not me, and then they would print off 
>> that
>> picture professionally and mail it to the customer.
>>
>> How would i process payments in this process? The server they are hosting
>> on isn't a "secure" server, i.e. there is no data encryption as of yet
>> because I don't know how. So the payment details entering would have to 
>> be
>> done on some other server, I am assuming if i am using PayPal they will
>> handle that right?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time
>> Kevin
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