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PrestaShop Module Development

By : Serny
Book Image

PrestaShop Module Development

By: Serny

Overview of this book

If you are a developer who is new to PrestaShop and wants to get a good foundation in development on the PrestaShop framework, this book is for you. It's assumed that you will have some experience with PHP5, jQuery, and HTML/CSS (no need to be an expert on it).
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
12
Index

Working with a third-party API


For most payment modules, you will have to work with a third-party API. In this section, we will build a payment method on a very simple API and we will also learn how to save the transaction ID. We will use the api.php script attached to the code of this chapter. You can open it if you want to see how it works, but in summary, we need the following variables as POST values:

  • api_credentials_id: For this, in our case, we have to send the presta string value

  • id_cart: This is the cart ID

  • total_to_pay: This is the total amount of the order

  • validation_url: This is the URL that the api.php script will call to confirm that the order has been paid

  • return_url: This is the URL that the customer will be redirected to if he or she goes back

  • cancel_url: This is the URL that the customer will be redirected to if the payment fails (in our case, there is no real transaction; a payment will be always accepted, so this URL will not be used)

  • payment_token: This corresponds to...