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[Elijah Insua]

Paul,

It seems like what you would want is a payment gateway, which would process
the payment immediately.  From there I would recommend using an Observer OOP
pattern to attach events to the payment transaction.

-- Elijah

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:49 AM, PaulCheung <paulcheung at tiscali.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anybody help?? I have run into a major problem, I do not understand how
> shopping carts work. I have tried asking technical support of the likes of
> PayPal, while they are all very knowledgeable businesswise, they are not PHP
> developers. I was told that I should check my email periodically.
>
> As a shopping cart newbie using PHP, I am lost. I understand it is develop
> myself or much the easiest and best way is to use a shopping cart, which I
> agree with.
>
>  From a merchant's point of view, here is what I want. Once payment has
>> been
>>
> made and confirmed, I want a token confirming payment (payment info) to be
> sent to my site and then, without manual intervention, I want to dispatch a
> confirmation email to the customer an invoice and then the goods/services to
> the customer.
>
> Is there a way of  automatically polling for this info?? Is there a better
> of doing things??
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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