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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello guys and gals.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope you're all well. Not strictly a Linux
question, but more a PHP on a Linux platform question :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone have any experience with having
programmed an interface for PayPal's "Website Payments Pro" in
PHP5?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My sister uses PayPal on her site to take payments
the easy way (site -> paypal -> return to site), but it's putting people
off who have a credit card. The callback is done by the IPN (instant
payment notification), which is *OK* but it's sometimes slow to inform her site
that a payment has been made, and so people think it has failed :(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So she has asked me if I can put a proper Credit
Card authorisation system in, whereby it talks to PayPal in the background
(using CURL perhaps?), and my script gets an instant Computer-Says-Yes/No answer
without the customer leaving her site.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been reading through the PDFs, and they talk
about getting the C development kits -- this is a problem since she hosts on a
shared server, and she's not allowed SSH access or stuff like that.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any pointers, ideas, would be gratefully
accepted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks guys.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Ricky</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>