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
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