On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 13:54:46 +0100, "Christo" <chris.m.white@nospamhot-mail.com> wrote:

>I plan to write my own php shopping cart
>
>is there a way in which I can link the shopping cart to payment methods such
>as paypal?
>
>basically its for a project at university and i want to be able to allow
>users to add items to the cart on my website, view a price etc, select
>shipping and all of that, I then want them to be able to click "Checkout"
>and be taken to paypal which will automatically bring a paypal page up
>showing how much the user has to pay... is this at all possible?
>
>i want to use paypal because its free dont want to go into merchant stuff
>and everything just want it to link to paying my paypal account
>
>is there a way anyone can you help??
>
>TIA
>
>Christo
>



yeah that's totally doable. Just download the paypal pdf users guide. They explain how to pass an
existing shopping cart data into paypal. You can collect all the user information on your site and
just use paypal as the final credit card gateway.

But you should also set up your cart with https so your customer informatino is secure. Check with
your ISP, they need to set this up for you. Sometimes it comes with certain ISP plans. Others
occationally charge a fee to set this up. Usually around $100 or so. But if are are going to
collecting any customer informaitno on your site then transfering to paypal or whaterver - this
should be considered a high priority item.