Pro PayPal E-Commerce (Expert's Voice)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 279 pages
• Published by: Apress March 5, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1590597508
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590597507
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 13.6 ounces

Book Description


Pro PayPal E-Commerce contains the most comprehensive collection of information on the latest PayPal technologies available. It takes the approach of PayPal as a digital money platform, and shows how it's a dynamic service that offers far more than just payment processing.

With its breadth of technologies and APIs, the PayPal platform is a basis for development and innovation for an unlimited number of possibilities. It offers a wide range of payment technologies, but it's not always easy to decipher which technology is the best choice for a web site. This book gets under the hood to show you how the different technologies work, how to choose the right solution, and how to implement the solution&emdash;complete with real-world PayPal success stories.

You'll learn how to integrate PayPal directly into web sites to make use of its payment technologies. This allows you, no matter what language you program in, to build shopping carts or similar channel products with PayPal as a payment option. You can also use this book to learn about the basics of e-commerce, where PayPal fits in, and how you can meet your own e-commerce needs. This book covers

• How PayPal works
• Using the PayPal API
• Website Payments Standard
• Website Payments Pro
• Instant Payment Notification
• Payment Data Transfer
• Encrypted Website Payments
• Administration
• Reporting
• Fraud protection
• Payflow Gateway

About The Author
Damon Williams has worked at PayPal since 2004, where he has
specialized in making life easier for people trying to integrate PayPal
into web sites and applications. His background is in software
engineering, community building, and content publishing. He is a
certified Java developer with over seven years of experience, and he
also spent five years as the publisher of Feedback Magazine in Austin,
Texas. His current position is managing the PayPal Developer Network,
where he is building an online community for innovation and support on
the PayPal commerce platform.

Reader Reviews
The book did a good job of covering everything EXCEPT the Paypal API. It had a smattering of samples in PHP, Java, C#, VB, and Perl up until that point. Once the PayPal API is discussed, there are only a couple of samples and everything in Java despite the growing (and perhaps exceeding) popularity of PHP for website development. While not entirely the author's fault given the poor shape of PayPal PHP SDK, it was disappointing that so little time and explaination was given on how to use Paypal's API. If you're looking for help integrating PHP with the Paypal API for Website Payments Pro or Express Payment, you're out of luck. This book won't help. This is unfortunate since the Paypal API is the most complex part of integration and perhaps the reason you would buy a book like this since many of the other integrations such as IPN are fairly easy by comparison. The book does do a good job of working you through IPN integration, so if that's what you need, then this book will help. Having had to now try and learn the PayPal API on my own, it does seem like it's fundamentally 'over-complex' and Paypals SDKs do little to hide the complexity. Perhaps the Java SDK is in better shape, but the PHP one is a bear to get configured and working correctly Comment | | (Report this)