gtilflm-quickstart | Stripe Developers | Page 1

limber cragBOT Feb 7, 2023, 12:11 AM

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minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:11 AM

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gtilflm-quickstart

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Hey @blissful harbor the CLI is optional and really only used when you're working locally on your own computer to build your code. Most developers first develop locally and only deploy to their hosting provider after their code is ready.

blissful harbor Feb 7, 2023, 12:12 AM

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OK. I actually have a way of testing on the live site without disturbing things.

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All I really want to do is send the API an amount and a customer name (maybe even email or customer ID too), then have them be able to pay via credit card.

minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:14 AM

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Sure, but all of that requires careful planning as the developer really. Are you an experienced developer writing your own website/app integration and fully understanding how all of this works?

blissful harbor Feb 7, 2023, 12:14 AM

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And this would be PHP so https://stripe.com/docs/api/authentication?lang=php

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I'm fairly inexperienced, but I've done some API stuff before, and I built my own site.

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Looks like you send info. via curl, then get back a json object.

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Unless I'm missing something.

minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:18 AM

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you definitely shouldn't just use curl, we have an entire PHP library for it. I'd recommend starting with https://stripe.com/docs/development/quickstart?lang=php and installing the Stripe CLI locally to get a feel for the API really

blissful harbor Feb 7, 2023, 12:20 AM

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Thanks for replying!

minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:21 AM

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you might want to look at https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-links which makes it easy to accept payments with little to no code. Or https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/quickstart?lang=php for an easy integration in PHP with some limited code.

blissful harbor Feb 7, 2023, 12:22 AM

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Looks like you first have to use composer to install stripe-php though, which requires command line access.

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Looking at https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/quickstart?lang=php

minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:24 AM

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Composer is the canonical way to install php libraries for most PHP developers nowadays. It's definitely something most developers would use.
You can also do a manual installation otherwise per https://github.com/stripe/stripe-php#manual-installation

blissful harbor Feb 7, 2023, 12:24 AM

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Ok, that could work. Shared hosting is..... limited

minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:25 AM

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many shared hosts providers support Composer

blissful harbor Feb 7, 2023, 12:25 AM

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It's hostgator

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I have cPanel

minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:26 AM

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https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/how-to-set-up-composer

blissful harbor Feb 7, 2023, 12:26 AM

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lol

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Was just looking at that

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Not sure if you can weigh in on this. If you need to be done, then no worries.

minor robin Feb 7, 2023, 12:36 AM

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did you create that composer.json or provide the right permissions? That's really something you should discuss with your hosting provider

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