Dear all,

We were aiming to use and eventually improve an existing Symfony plugin to
implement online PayPal payment for one of our customers. After searching in
the plugin repository, we were kind of puzzled...

http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPayPalPlugin
http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPaypalDirectPlugin
http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPaypalPaymentsPlugin
http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPaypalLitePlugin

None of these plugins looks finalized nor fully working. Most of them are
just empty shells.

There was an interested thread on the subject in December (
http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users/browse_thread/thread/520db466889357eb)
where Lee said that he was in the process of reviewing PayPal and Google
Checkout plugins. I didn't get anything new on this since that time. Lee, if
you are reading, that would be lovely if you could update us on your plans.

In addition, it looks like there are also dead/no-longer-active proposals on
the Zend Framework  (
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Service_PayPal+-+A.J.+Brown,
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Service_Payment).

Depending on the outcomes of this discussion, we might well start developing
a new PayPal payment plugin, however, to avoid creating one out of many
other empty shells / unmaintained plugins, I think it is critical to join
forces on that kind of development.

As a reminder, Fabien said recently : "We are facing a big challenge here,
as the quality of a plugin cannot be determined easily." (
http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2009/04/07/tell-us-the-plugins-you-use).
I think this particular case is an illustration of this quotation.

Thank you for your contributions.

Regards,

Antoine Leclercq
Branch Manager @ LetsCod
[email protected]
http://www.letscod.com

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