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SMF v2 and Testing With PayPal and Introducing a Vocuher/Discount System

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dmorris68:
Yes, I have a developer sandbox account, it's a must for developing PayPal integration.  You can create as many dummy buyer and seller accounts as you need.  It lets you send/receive all types of dummy transactions (CC, bank, e-check), setup transaction failures (CC declines, frozen acounts, etc.) for exception testing, and more.  I have one and plan to write our own integration for our SMF forum once we get migrated over from phpBB2, as we will have a "catalog" of items in addition to the usual donations and premium memberships that users can purchase or subscribe to. 

I picked up hxxp:www.amazon.com/Professional-Web-APIs-PHP-Google/dp/0764589547 [nonactive] on web API integration using PHP, which includes a chapter on PayPal.  As you would expect for financial transactions, their protocol is a pretty robust (i.e. complex) one that uses server callbacks (the PayPal server contacts your server as part of the protocol), but that book does a good job of demystifying it. 

Grand Duke:
paypal is not good system for international paid. because many countries have limited accounts in this money system, there are can't receiving money from any members and can't gathering some donations.

i think that best solution for paided subscription is google checkout. this system have good documented api and feedback of developer. maybe sandbox too.

wait for development ...

Elegant John:
Agreed with Grand Duke

Google Checkout is the new standard. I've been using them for over a year with ZERO problems.

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