Hi Sam, I have a full Paypal IPN implementation written in 4D code using 4D Internet Commands. If you wanted to go that route I would provide it to you "as is" 4D 2004.
I don’t have much in the way of documentation but an experienced 4D developer could figure out what the On Web Connection stuff is doing without much difficulty. Note that the system was running for about 4 years between 2007 - 2011 - billing about $500,000 of recurring subscriptions. It has both PayPal and Moneris (Canadian payments) code. It has been offline since 2011, so I don’t even know if it works with 2019 vintage IPN. David Garrard -----Original Message----- From: Sam Burnell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: September 4, 2019 8:25 AM To: 4D iNug Technical <[email protected]> Subject: Paypal IPN Integration Thank you for the response, Narinda. Any suggestions on where I would find that binary, and also how I would then get a php file (with cURL functions) to execute from inside the listener (OWC) without using PHP Execute? In other words, how to bypass using 4D’s php interpreter and use the one exterior to 4D? Thanks again, Sam > On Sep 3, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sam, > > I don't think Dani was suggesting that you build your own PHP interpreter > (although it's not hard to compile it from source for custom needs). If I > understood him correctly he was merely hinting at the option to download a > prebuilt binary with cURL support baked in, for example. > > Regards, > > Narinder Chandi, > ToolBox Systems Ltd. > -- > > -----Original Message----- > From: 4D_Tech <[email protected]> on behalf of 4D Tech Mailing > List <[email protected]> > Reply-To: 4D Tech Mailing List <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 01:09 > To: Dani Beaubien <[email protected]> > Cc: Sam Burnell <[email protected]>, 4D Tech Mailing List > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Please post this! > > Hi Dani, > > Thanks for the response. > > I don’t know nearly enough about php to be able to build my own > interpreter. I think I’m going in a different direction than php. > > Thank you again, > > Sam > >> On Sep 3, 2019, at 4:06 PM, Dani Beaubien >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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] >>> <mailto:[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 >>> <http://lists.4d.com/archives.html> >>> Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >>> <https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech> >>> Unsub: mailto:[email protected] >>> <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] > ********************************************************************** > > > ********************************************************************** > 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] **********************************************************************
