Paul, It seems like what you would want is a payment gateway, which would process the payment immediately. From there I would recommend using an Observer OOP pattern to attach events to the payment transaction.
-- Elijah On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:49 AM, PaulCheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody help?? I have run into a major problem, I do not understand how > shopping carts work. I have tried asking technical support of the likes of > PayPal, while they are all very knowledgeable businesswise, they are not PHP > developers. I was told that I should check my email periodically. > > As a shopping cart newbie using PHP, I am lost. I understand it is develop > myself or much the easiest and best way is to use a shopping cart, which I > agree with. > > From a merchant's point of view, here is what I want. Once payment has >> been >> > made and confirmed, I want a token confirming payment (payment info) to be > sent to my site and then, without manual intervention, I want to dispatch a > confirmation email to the customer an invoice and then the goods/services to > the customer. > > Is there a way of automatically polling for this info?? Is there a better > of doing things?? > > Cheers > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >
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