Re: RFC: Credit card processing

This should probably go in the Payment group: http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=18&catname=Payment Also, about your dataset - why not create an all encompassing dataset and then allow factories to gracefully handle them (ie. transaction support for the mysql DB driver). Ie. function isCvvValid() { return true; // my processing gateway ignores this so don't barf } --Joe > I'm currently working on some code to process credit cards. It's pretty > rough > at the moment, but I'd like to see it become something roughly equivalent > to > CPAN's Business::OnlinePayment. I know of no equivalent of this for PHP. > If > I've missed one, let me know so I can stop wasting my time. :^) > > Something like this could be quite big, so I'd like to know what you > thought, > and if you had any suggestions. > > It's designed with the factory pattern, which allows for the code for a > single > processor to be encapsulated in a single file, and allows it to support > many > different processors. > > There are a couple issues I'm aware of: > > 1. Should I let the processors have an arbitrary data format, or should I > define a common subset which everything supports? Business::OnlinePayment > chose the latter arrangement, and it allows one to change the payment > processor quite easily. On the other hand, it makes it harder to support > diverse features among the processors, for example if one processor > supports > CVV2[1]. At the moment, I'm using the freeform method, which is much > simpler. > > 2. Should I try to support Business::OnlinePayment modules? It seems like > this > would be fairly easy to do with a glue processor which calls a perl > script. > > So, any interest? I'm at least going to finish the base and one processor > (DPILink), as I intend to use the code in my current project. > > [1]: http://1callhosting.com/cvv2/ > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> http://www.joestump.net "Label makers are proof God wants Sys Admins to be happy."