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Paypal Checkout API with PHP and JavaScript

: Joel Lipman; PayPal; 09 June 2019; Hits: 1373

Applies to:

PayPal OAuth2.0 API v1
PayPal Checkout API v2

What?
This is an article on how to build a shopping cart and get your website to accept payments via PayPal. The below isn't a final or perfect option, it's an article to help me document and refine a process.

Why?
It appears that gone are the days when sending a payment via PayPal used to be a basic HTML form. There are probably a ton of other articles out there that document PayPal Checkout REST API v2 as well, I just want to build my own that I can understand and update.

I've chosen the API method because according to PayPal's instructions you don't have to install any additional software/framework. Ideal in my opinion.

How?
This code has been built to work alongside jQuery but it could be adapted to a pure JS solution.

High Level Recap

JavaScript » Cookie » PHP

1. Client Side JS to create Cart
2. Validate Cart with PHP on Checkout
3. Confirm Transaction with PHP and JS

How to Install AlertPay Payment Method for Virtuemart

: Joel Lipman; Virtuemart; 22 August 2010; Hits: 6962

As the instructions to installing a new payment module in Virtuemart for Joomla! I've done this video showing how I apply it to my demo site.

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Calculating Percentage

: Joel Lipman; eCommerce Systems; 20 May 2010; Hits: 9807

I need to often be reminded of how to calculate a percentage. The context here is that I want a progress bar in one of my programs.

To determine what percent a number is of a total number: copy raw styler
(Progress So Far / Total Progress Units) * 100 = % or (Net Amount / Gross Amount) * 100 = % eg. (12 steps / 30 steps) * 100 = 40% ie. 12 steps of 30 is 40% progress eg. ($8 / $10) * 100 = 80% ie. $8 of $10 is 80%

(Progress So Far / Total Progress Units) * 100 = %

or

(Net Amount / Gross Amount) * 100 = %



eg. (12 steps / 30 steps) * 100 = 40%   ie. 12 steps of 30 is 40% progress

eg. ($8 / $10) * 100 = 80%              ie. $8 of $10 is 80%

Category: eCommerce Systems :: Article: 268

: Joel Lipman; Virtuemart; 27 September 2009; Hits: 8109

This happened to a m8s website in VirtueMart 1.1.3. The issue here was that although all the prices lost their float/decimal and were rounded up to the nearest integer...

At first we thought this was due to installing a Virtuemart UK Credit Card Payment Module (vm-ukcreditcard). A lot of forums were suggesting to change the number_format to convert any number to a currency or two decimal places. Another suggestion was to alter the main virtuemart database table (jos_vm_prodcut_price)...

Don't do any of these things!

After modifying tax rates and ensuring these were all the same, we also found that this was due to a country not being specified under the Store configuration within VirtueMart.

Setting up your store to use SSL

: Joel Lipman; eCommerce Systems; 11 September 2009; Hits: 3508

To setup your store to use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) you will first need an SSL certificate. Many hosting companies will either provide (or can offer) "Shared SSL" or the option to buy a "Dedicated SSL" certificate.

Shared SSL means that your store will run using two domains your master domain name and shared secure domain which may be used by other customers of your hosting company.
Dedicated SSL means that you will have your own SSL certificate which enable you to run your store on one domain using http and https.