Re: Anyone wanna be God for the day? E-commerce Solution

See http://www.php.net/manual/ref.curl.php On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, JB wrote: > Ok, > > I've inquired about this problem in a couple different threads and have found some new > info, hopefully someone will be able to help me put together the pieces. I haven't been able to > get any clear cut answers though, so I figure anyone who can help solve this will get to be the PHP > God for the day, maybe two. =P > > If anyone here has setup an e-commcerce script to handle real time credit card processing info > you probably know how to do this, and I may be going about it wrong. > > The process: > > 1. User fills out a form with Name, Credit Card number, Exp. Date, etc. > 2. The form data is passed to a local PHP script where it takes the variables and adds > variables that need to remain secret for obvious reasons. These include the account number, account > password, and other required information for the authorization script (by iBill). > 3. This information must then be POSTED (no, GET is not supported, if you GET the transaction > will be denied, erroring 'GET is not supported') to the transaction script ---> > https://secure.ibill.com/cgi-win/ccard/tpcard.exe > 4. The iBill script replies with a string basically either saying the purchase was authorized > or denied. > 5. The script takes the string iBill replies with and continues based on what the string told > us about the transaction. > > My first and foremost problem lies within the fact I have yet to find any way to POST > information to a remote script from PHP. Say I get my variables from the user and add my variables, > how in the heck do I POST those variables to the iBill script out of PHP? Can PHP even open a > connection and send POST data? You would think this would be a common function. > > Second, obviously I need to PHP to get the response, which of course will be encrpted with SSL. > So I need something like: > $returned_string = ' w3m-ssl -dump $post_function_return' ; > (as recommended by Joe Stump) > > If I can get the data POSTed to a remote script and can take the string in SSL and get it into > plain text everything else will be a sinch. > > So, anyone have any crazy ideas on this? How have you guys/gals setup your scripts to work with > the authorization company's software? Authorize.net, ccnow, ibill, they all pretty much use the > same concept for authorizing CCs, so I'm open to suggestions. Some people have mentioned to > look into $HTTP_POST_VARS[], but have no idea how to send it. I am thinking the solution lies in > $HTTP_POST_VARS and Header( .....). > > Thank you much. >