Re: Opinion on on-line payment and banking gateway

Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > I'm not a PHP programmer. you eloi, you. :-) > I ask this question for a friend of > mine. So I'm not sure if I'm using the correct terms. He's making an > e-commerce website and he doesn't know much about how to validate credit > card, or how to make transactions. tell him this: "never ever ever ever so much as accept a creditcard number as input to any of his scripts let alone store it somewhere - leave that to the payment provider who has the expertise, secure (hopefully) system and massive liability fund to be able to deal with such things professionally." > What he needs is called "banking > gateway", right? payment provider is probably a more used term. but yes her needs one of those. one example is paypal - there are plenty of others. > > After some search in php.net, I've found a link to > http://www.trustcommerce.com/. Is this what he's looking > for? no idea if trustcommerce.com is recommended but it's the kind of thing he's looking for yes. Has > anyone here used this? Actually, it doesn't matter to him if such thing > isn't open-source or isn't free. What he needs is something that > works. Anyone has any opinions or suggestions? Any tutorial to banking > gateway? google/yahoo knows more than me :-)