[ale] semi OT: secure payment gateway -- php on linux?

[Mike Lockhart]

I've done transaction gatesways using PHP/cURL and Authorize.net and had
really good luck with it.  Authroize.net allows you to do an https POST
of your transaction data, cc #, etc, and will return it data in machine
readable format, you can even specify the field separators.  They also
have pretty good API documentation and their costs aren't to exorbaint. 
Another one you might want to look into that plays nice with PHP as a
transaction gateway is VeriSucks PayFlow Pro.  I can't say that I'm a
fan of Verisign (they're actually our competition) but their transaction
gateway services are pretty good last i checked.  Hope this helps some.

-- mike

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 09:59, jenn at colormaria.com wrote:
> NOW the bossmen want to set up a merchant account. And we need a payment
> gateway.
> 
> We've got a shopping cart written in PHP and we've taken great pains to
> make it more secure than the next guy.  With the payment gateway thing,
> we'll have to somehow pass credit card information to a third party so
> that they verify the cc in real time and pass us back a yea or nay on it.
> 
> I would rather have the payment gateway live on our server and use our
> POTS line to call someone instead of sending this information across the
> vast and evil interweb. But I can't find anything that lives on linux and
> doesn't cost $15,000.  So we're stuck with a 3rd party.
> 
> Anyone doing this?  Anyone have any suggestions about 3rd party
> autentication services that you've used and had success with?
> 
> TIA
> jenn
> 
> 
> 
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Intercosmos Media Group
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