coderamblings.com

Ecommerce can be a complicated topic because it is expected to take into account the company's method of selling, marketing, inventory and processing cash.

The basics of communicating with an e-commerce gateway such as Beanstream, who also happens to reside in Victoria, Canada, is to provide a bunch of information that gets encoded to https://www.beanstream.com/scripts/process_transaction.asp via curl.


$merchant_id = '000000000'; // Replace with your merchant id
$sBeanstream = "requestType=BACKEND";
$sBeanstream .= "&errorPage=".urlencode("https://www.beanstream.com/samples/order_form.asp");
$sBeanstream .= "&merchant_id=$merchant_id";
$sBeanstream .= '&trnCardOwner='. urlencode($obj->credit_holder_name);
$sBeanstream .= '&trnCardNumber='. urlencode($obj->credit_card_number);
$sBeanstream .= '&trnExpMonth='. urlencode($obj->credit_expiry_month);
$sBeanstream .= '&trnExpYear='. urlencode($obj->credit_expiry_year);
$sBeanstream .= '&trnAmount='. urlencode($amount);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordEmailAddress='. urlencode($obj->credit_email_address);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordName='. urlencode($obj->credit_holder_name);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordPhoneNumber='. urlencode($obj->credit_phone_number);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordAddress1='. urlencode($obj->credit_address1);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordAddress2='. urlencode($obj->credit_address22);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordCity='. urlencode($obj->credit_city);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordProvince='. urlencode($obj->credit_province_state);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordPostalCode='. urlencode($obj->credit_postal_code);
$sBeanstream .= '&ordCountry='. urlencode($obj->credit_country);



// Process the Credit Card
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.beanstream.com/scripts/process_transaction.asp" );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,1 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); // times out after 4s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"{$sBeanstream}");
$txResult = curl_exec( $ch ); // DO IT
//echo '$sBeanstream=|'.$sBeanstream.'| $ch=|'.$ch.'| $txResult=|'.$txResult.'|'; die();
// clear result set
$txResult = str_replace("trnApproved", "&trnApproved", $txResult);
parse_str($txResult);
curl_close($ch);
return $trnApproved; // 1 is success


Note, Beanstream can provide you with a sandbox merchant id, so during development, you can use that merchant id.

To test if Beanstream is accepting your certificates, can use https://www.beanstream.com/scripts/debug.asp

Also, it is good to save the result string returned by Beanstream in a log table.