Hi Marcus, I think you will have a hard time finding a finished solution for this. As I understand it there are a two common ways to accept payment via phones. Calling in (also works with land-lines), SMS in (actually the reply to be exact).
Since there is no standard in this field as with, for example, email (POP, SMTP) there is not likely to ever be one single component. Each company offering "Premium SMS" (= pay by SMS) offer its own API which may also work slightly differently for different countries. I found one component in the bakery a while back. It was still there: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/sms-text-component But that is for Clickatell's sms gateway and for sending messages... not receiving anything back or anything like that. But it may be a good start whichever provider you decide to go with. What you need your application to do (in broad strokes) is: - Your app generates a temporary unique code (ABCXYZ) and displays instructions to send an sms containing the code to a specified number. -- Send a text message containing the following message "SITENAME ABCXYZ" to 11111. You will be charged $2 for... - Your provider will call a http or soap url on your site when a message for SITENAME arrives at their gateway. - Your app parses the text, matched the code and figures out which transaction should be processed. - Your app send a message back to the phone thanking them and so on... This is the one that costs them the money. You can replace the unique code with checking the number sending in the message. Depending on the type of transactions you want to do this can be totally safe. /Martin On Jan 11, 9:17 pm, Marcus Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I need to write something to collect payment for a website via mobile > phones. > > I was just wondering if any of you knew of any good companies and also > if there is a component to do the job already out there. > > Any help helps > > many thanks in advance > > Marcus Silva --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
