Hi

Has anyone out there used or know of a cart solution that works with FileMakers API for PHP.

Have been trying to convince my client to go with PayPal so I can use Dolphin Cart, but they will not budge.

Any help or recommendations are much appreciated

Regards

Orlando

Edited October 8, 200718 yr by Guest

Well, not really no...

You could always build your own credit card processing system, but the pain there is that you have to make everything twice as secure because you are dealing with credit card details - whereas normally that would all be handled by paypal.

Tell your clients they are being unreasonable, alternatively, if you feel fairly comfortable with PHP and the API, go find some PHP / MySQL shopping cart solution that relies primarily on sessions for the cart construction, plug the FM API in for your actual products (submiting to the necessary pages) and then finally for the positive response page wherever that may be post the data back to FM using the FM API.

So essentially you plug some other solution in to handle the cart management and the credit card processing...

See, but then your clients gonna have to pay for an SSL certificate, and the credit card processor subscription and god knows what else.

Thanks for the reply.

I am very new to PHP, this is my first project using FileMaker and PHP.

Will try to convince them but if they don’t budge I will look into an SQL based cart and see what I can do.

Does mean I can put the price up for my development time though...

I will post to let you know the outcome.

Cheers

Orlando