Hi Sam, you don’t have to use 4D’s PHP. You can install your own version of the PHP interpreter and call that through the command line. I had to do that due to having a requirement of a specific version of PHP. Works quite well.
Dani Beaubien Open Road Development > On Aug 28, 2019, at 10:43 PM, Sam Burnell via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am looking for a solution to taking paypal payments on our website (which > is served by a 4D Server database), which utilizes paypal's Instant Payment > Notification (IPN) system. > > To clarify, our system is already set up to take paypal payments but we get > no notification from paypal that a payment was made. The only way we know > that we received a payment is when we see the payment in our paypal account. > We then have to manually create the necessary database records for the > transaction, based on the payment. > > So we need paypal to notify us when a successful payment is received by them > so that we can automate the process (as we do with credit cards). > > Here is what we want to do: > > Upon receiving a payment for our product, paypal will send an IPN (containing > transation data) to a url specified by us, where we have a listener set up > (in OWC) to intercept that notification and execute a file which receives the > data, returns it to paypal, and then receives either a VERIFIED or INVALID > response from paypal. If VERIFIED, we use the transaction data to > auto-generate the required records in our database. > > The file I just mentioned can be written in php, js, coldfusion, perl, ruby, > etc. Paypal provides examples for each language on github. > > So, I tried for weeks to implement the php version, only to find out (through > partner support) that 4D's php interpreter is not set up to handle cURL > functions, which are part of the php code in paypal's php sample... > > So now I'm trying to work with javascript and not having much success > (although more than with php) and I thought I'd put some feelers out there... > Seems to me as though there has to be a commercial 4D website/database (or > two!) out there that sells products online and takes paypal payments using > paypal's IPN. If that is the case, I'm willing to PAY for time, advice, code, > etc., so PLEASE contact me if you think you can assist, and thanks in advance. > > Sam > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
