paying using visa

[eluser]mohamed_luay[/eluser]
hello everybody
i am working on a something like a bookstore application and its required that the user can buy a book using visa card.so i want to know how this can be obtained through codeIgniter.

THANK YOU AND
BEST REGARDS

[eluser]Johan André[/eluser]
[quote author="mohamed_luay" date="1249750850"]hello everybody
i am working on a something like a bookstore application and its required that the user can buy a book using visa card.so i want to know how this can be obtained through codeIgniter.

THANK YOU AND
BEST REGARDS[/quote]

Usually you work with some kind of payment gateway that accepts major creditcards.
There are Paypal and others. You can't bill peoples cards without going thru a provider that has the right to do so.

Doing it with CI is like doing it in any language. You usually access their API.

Good luck

[eluser]John Bellone[/eluser]
We've opted to use <a href="http://paypal.com">Paypal</a> for most of our transactions. One of our developers wrote a Q&D CI library for using their API, but I'll have to talk with him to see if he is willing to part with it. One of our goals is to refactor it into something that can support multiple payment strategies (e.g. Paypal, Google Wallet, etc) instead of just a single one. I know that the CI fork, <a href="http://www.kohanaphp.com/">Kohana</a>, has a Paypal plugin that may be able to be ported.

<b>EDIT:</b> Thought I remembered something over in the Wiki, check out this for some examples of the Paypal Instant Payment Notification service. <a href="http://codeigniter.com/wiki/PayPal_Lib/">http://codeigniter.com/wiki/PayPal_Lib/</a>