Larry,
My basic requirement is to take credit card payments. Paypal seemed the most useful for a few reasons, mainly because these payments will be 'repeat' payments, and paypal seems a very simple process once you have created an account, and associated credit cards (and they are currently running a tv ad campaign, and with the widespread use of eBay, many people in the uk already have a paypal account).
I have set up a 'sandpit' on paypal, but have reached a bit of a dead end, simply down to lack of knowledge, I'm very new to 'web' programming, and I'm finding the learning curve pretty steep (I'm old and find it very frustrating as I've been using clarion for over 25 years and know it so well, this is so far out of my comfort zone, but getting better!).
The paypal docs seemed to suggest passing data with 'posts', but that was beyond my 'scope' (!) so I have resorted to simply jumping to a url with a few parameters (see earlier posts).. but as I don't seem to be able to log into a paypal account once I 'Land' on the paypal test system I have drawn a blank so far (and have put this on the back burner, to return to later in the development of this system, it's going to take a while and I was hoping at the point the time came that I MUST have this processing I would have ingested enough knowledge to progress!)
Not sure all this makes sense, in summary I think I need paypal integration, but I haven't got very far!!
Thanks
Bill