I think I finally found my answer to the missing piece: from DevShed.com URL: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/CREDIT/
Looks like the ISP needs to recompile the php! Dah!!! Tim, thanks for the lead to the missing piece and the rest of the invaluable information! Karen -----Original Message----- From: Tim Thorburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:08 AM To: Karen Lubrecht Subject: Re: [PHP] Novice in eCommerce Hi Karen, Connecting the shopping cart with your credit card merchant account is done through the payment gateway - each company has their own methods of doing so. Depending which country you are in, and which merchant account/hosting provider you are using you'll need to talk to your gateway people and see how they'd like it done. I've setup several eCommerce sites - both making my own shopping cart and using a pre-built one. Generally speaking, the less you have to do with the payment gateway (by less I mean the more automated it is from the merchant account/gateway people) the better it is for you - less risk and less liability. Not sure if this has helped or not ... as I've only used 2 gateways to date and will be signing up with a new one mid-next week. Let me know if I can be of any more assistance. Thanks -Tim At 04:44 PM 9/14/2003, you wrote: >this may not be the right place to ask this, but perhaps someone here >can tell me what I don't know and should be trying to learn! > >I can uses php in the construction of a web site. I can create a data >base and authenticate users. I can create a shopping cart. I know that >osCommerce is highly thought of. I can get a merchant card. I know that >a SSL certificate is needed and if it is shared due to a shared server, >the insurance is only for the owner of the server not for those >accounts hosted. I know how to encrypt email using PGP or GNUPG. > >What I seem to be dense about is the technique for connecting the >credit card company and the shopping cart, and where the SSL fits into >this code! Something just isn't making sense! > >My appologies if I am trying to get php to do something that it isn't >meant to do! If you can tell me what should be doing it I would greatly >appreciate it!!!!!!!!! > >TIA > >Karen > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
