Re: [PEPr] Call for votes on Payment::Payment_PayPalSoap

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 18:08 -0400, till wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com> wrote: > > > > Michael Gauthier (http://pear.php.net/user/gauthierm) has initiated the call for votes on > > Payment::Payment_PayPalSoap. > > > > Please review the proposal and give your vote here: > > http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=556 > > Hey Michael, > > I should have check out the code before the vote, anyway. Hi Till, Thanks for your interest and feedback! > I'm torn because as you say - "by itself this package isn't very > useful". And I wish it would provide more in terms of API integration. My reasons for not including the full PayPal API in this package are: 1.) The PayPal SOAP API is well documented and I wouldn't be able to accurately reproduce this documentation (which is mentioned in the package documentation). 2.) The PayPal SOAP API is described in a WSDL file. If PayPal changes or updates the API, this package will automagically work with the new or updated methods. One place where I could see a deeper integration being useful is building orders and order-item structures. Since the PHP structure for these objects is usually different from project to project I'm not sure how useful it in in practise. > The code itself looks very solid and I see that this can indeed jump > start you, I just don't think the authorization is the hardest part. I > had to integrate Paypal six weeks ago and I found it more confusing to > send all the required information in a request e.g. to create a > subscription etc. then the authorization part. > > Do you plan on extending it in the future, or is this gonna serve as a > base for a possible addition to Payment_Process? I don't plan on adding extra PHP methods to replicate the PayPal API in the future. I am not opposed to this package being used as a base for a higher-level API in Payment_Process, but I don't personally have any interest in doing so. > Till >