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From: comedydave on 2 Feb 2007 18:21 I was just wondering if anyone has came accross any solution to integrate PayPal with a standalone Director projector? I am creating a digital vending machine and was hoping there may be a way to add a pay by PayPal part where the user can enter their details via the Director program and then hook up to PayPal and authorise their payment in the background. Any ideas? Thanks, Dave
From: Mark A. Boyd on 4 Feb 2007 05:23 "comedydave" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> posted in macromedia.director.basics: > I was just wondering if anyone has came accross any solution to > integrate PayPal with a standalone Director projector? I know nothing about PayPal's API, but I'd bet that the worst case scenario would be to have the projector communicate with a server script on a site you have access to. If I recall correctly, Director's get/postNetText does not work with https SSL from a projector (do check me on this), so I wouldn't recommend using those commands to send sensitive information over plain http protocol[1]. I would probably start my Director side research with the SecureNet Xtra. http://www.inm.com/products/snxdirector/ . With that Xtra, you could probably connect directly to PayPal's servers (again, I haven't looked into PayPal's API). It seems that my favorite Website for a list of Xtras is going through some changes http://www.updatestage.com Mile High Table O'Products. You could check for other Xtras that support secure communications over the Internet. IIRC, the technote to look for on the Adobe Director support site that lists other Director sites was tn_3104 (there's probably a link right on the support pages). It should be easy enough to find in the Technotes at http://www.adobe.com/support/director [1] If you have good control of the Web server (and PHP is available), you might want to check out Robert Tweed's Lingo implementation of Blowfish, LingoFish. http://killingmoon.com/director/lingofish/ . I can happily report that I used it very successfully in a project a few years ago. Very well written. -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :)
From: DMennenoh **AdobeCommunityExpert** on 5 Feb 2007 14:43 >>It seems that my favorite Website for a list of Xtras is going through >>some changes http://www.updatestage.com Yeah...like they've decided to make it _really_ ugly wit white text on black... Can you say 1984? -- Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
From: Sean Wilson on 5 Feb 2007 16:28 You could try the eCommerce xtra: <http://www.director-xtras.com/xtra-ecommerce.html>
From: Meliora Software on 5 Feb 2007 17:30
Hello Dave, I know both PayPal's API and Director pretty well. You need to create a few server side scripts and trigger them in your Director projector. Your projector can't talk to paypal directly because PayPal talks to web URLs only as of now. Think of it as of an MVC design pattern where your backend scripts is a model, PayPal site is a controller and your Director projector is a view. Turn on the IPN (instant payment notification) feature in your PayPal acct profile and specify an URL like www.yoursite.com/ipn.php there. Every time you get a payment PayPal site posts all purchase info to that URL. You are supposed to store all data in a database table. Then your projector talks to another script on your site like www.yoursite.com/details.php to retrieve payment details and display them to the customer. That's in short, all that stuff is not easy but still possible. Good luck to you with your project, Alex. ---------------------------------------------------------- Meliora Software, "Ameliorated Development!" http://www.meliorasoft.com |