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PayPal PHP Integration Guide
If you are using Composer you can get going quickly through our Packagist repo. If you are not using Composer you can simply download the class library and add it to your project. If you would like more details on either of these methods take a look at our install...
PayPal Partner
We are an official PayPal Partner and provide PayPal integration services to top tiered merchants that PayPal refers to us directly. We also provide custom development of tools that PayPal uses with their internal teams. We specialize in integrating PayPal web...
Angell EYE PayPal PHP Class Libraries Updated
We have just released updated versions of our PHP class libraries for PayPal (one standard and one specific to CodeIgniter). The new version includes the following updates: Fixes Corrected bug in update to SetExpressCheckout() to avoid PHP warnings when a TOKEN isn't...
Using PayPal IPN to Deliver an eBook and Update eBay Shipping Status – Part 2
Introduction In part 1 of this series we built a basic IPN listener script using PHP. If you’re following along, you should now have a working IPN script that receives the data and prepares it for use accordingly. If you’re struggling with this you might find my...
How to Create PayPal Sandbox Account
The first step towards using the PayPal sandbox for testing and demo purposes is creating PayPal sandbox accounts. To fully test most PayPal transactions you will need at least one buyer and one seller sandbox account. This guide provides details on...
Nerd Enterprises Interview with Andrew Angell
Seth David, from Nerd Enterprises, invited Andrew Angell to be a guest on his weekly "Interview with a Guru" live on Google Plus Hangouts. Watch as Seth and Andrew discuss some of the details, tips and tricks involved with merchant accounts for accepting credit cards...
Using PayPal IPN to Deliver an eBook and Update eBay Shipping Status – Part 1
Introduction PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification system is a very useful tool for developers. It can help automate tasks and manage sales in a number of ways. I’ve written a few articles in the past that covered using IPN in different ways and testing it...
How to Integrate PayPal Payments Pro Using PHP
This is a video screencast that was created to go along with this Nettuts+ tutorial. Step by step instructions on creating a PHP application to process credit cards using PayPal Payments Pro, specifically the DoDirectPayment API. The tutorial includes the...
How to Process Credit Cards with PayPal Payments Pro Using PHP
In this article, Andrew Angell walks you through the steps to integrate PayPal Payments Pro using their NVP API with PHP. This article was published byNettuts+ tutorials. Read the full article at Nettuts+
Certified PayPal Developer
Andrew Angell, owner of Angell EYE, LLC, is one of only 13 ACE Certified PayPal developers in the world! The ACE status in PayPal's developer community is awarded by maintaining a a leadership role in the developer web forums and proving to be an asset among other...
How to Integrate PayPal Adaptive Accounts with PHP
Introduction PayPal now offers a vast array of payment processing options to both consumers and merchants. Outside of Payments Pro, though, users must have a PayPal account before they can do much of anything with the platform. Like anything else, this process...
PayPal Permissions API
Introduction Of all the PayPal API’s I’ve worked with over the years, I have to say that the Permissions service has been the most time saving, and in turn, cost saving, service that I’ve used…and I’ve used them all. In this article, I’d like to explain that bold...
How to Integrate PayPal Invoicing API’s Using PHP
Introduction Invoicing is very important aspect of any business and any tool that eases this process is generally welcomed. PayPal has a great invoicing tool that’s actually been around for a while now, but merchants were forced to use it from directly within their...
How to Integrate eBay API’s with PHP – Part 2
Overview In part of 1 of this 2-part series, we covered all of the basics of what exactly is involved with making calls to eBay’s API using PHP. We reviewed each step in the process, but we haven’t actually seen any of this in action yet. For part 2, we’ll be...
How to Integrate eBay APIs with PHP – Part 1
Overview eBay provides a very large set of web service API’s for developers to interact with. It can be somewhat daunting to developers at any level and especially to developers without much experience dealing with web services. PHP is a little bit unique among...
CodeIgniter PayPal Integration Tutorial
Introduction PHP has become an extremely popular scripting language for developing web-based applications. Developers are able to keep it as simple as possible and use “spaghetti code” within their HTML pages, or they can choose to build applications using a number...
PayPal Recurring Payments, Reference Transactions, and Preapproved Payments
Understanding the Differences of Each Over the years PayPal has grown into a vast array of payment options that can often puzzle merchants and developers alike. One area of this arena that is often accompanied by such confusion involves safely billing customers using...
How to Integrate PayPal API’s into FileMaker Solutions
Introduction FileMaker is a database solution that while not as popular as systems like Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc., still has a very large number of users building solutions on it every single day. In this article I’d like to discuss a little bit about...