JeffreyWay · June 2, 2013 23:33 · Jun 2, 2013
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+So you want to accept payments online with PHP?
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+- Well, you probably don't want to handle that process manually. Too dangerous and risky.
+- So learn the Stripe API. Works great!
+- But you'll still need to setup SSL. So go learn how to do that.
+- Stripe provides a PHP package, so download that through Composer. If you're not familiar with Composer, you'll need to learn that too.
+- If you want the most flexibility, you'll want to manually create the payment form.
+- So you'll need to send an AJAX request with a special token to Stripe's API. jQuery makes this easy, so go learn jQuery.
+- Once the payment completes, you'll likely want to send the buyer a "Purchased" email, so learn how to send email.
+- But don't make the user wait for the email to send. That takes too long. Add that to a background job.
+- If you want to use queues, then you'll need to learn how to use a service, like Iron.io.
+- Unless you want to do all of this with raw PHP, learn how to use a framework, like Laravel.
+- Finally, once you have everything working, are you sure that you're following the separation of concerns pattern? Go refactor. Don't know how? Well watch countless presentations, and learn how.
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+...And we wonder why we get overwhelmed.