#kqtipow - Checkout Session metadata
real lance
Hello 👋
You can do this by having your server retrieve the Checkout Session by the session_id that you get in the success URL
So when the user completes their payment, they will be directed to a URL like
http://localhost/test/success.php?session_id=cs_test_123
You can then retrieve the Session with a call to retrieve and then the metadata will be right on the object:
'cs_test_123',
[]
);```
stoic plinth
Yes, i have retieved succesfully
but wondering how to access that variable metadata
real lance
I think it will look something like
$order_id = $session->metadata["order_id"]
Have you tried that or just accessing $session->metadata to see what is in there?
real lance
Do you have the ID of the checkout session that that is for?
stoic plinth
$checkout_session = \Stripe\Checkout\Session::retrieve($session_id); I have it this way
Brilliant!
your answer helped me!
thanks a lot
$order_id = $session->metadata["order_id"]
that did the magix
real lance
Nice! What was your code for that before out of curiosity?
stoic plinth
$paymentIntent = \Stripe\PaymentIntent::retrieve($checkout_session->payment_intent);
$metadata = $paymentIntent->metadata['order_id'];
Maybe i was tried to access data inside on Stripe side
real lance
Ah yeah, the PaymentIntent has seperate metadata. You can set that metadata when creating the Checkout Session if you want https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create?lang=php#create_checkout_session-payment_intent_data
stoic plinth
You mean I can set customer name/email at PHP snippet, when I created session ID?
sorry, session*
real lance
My link there was just about setting the metadata on the payment intent instead of just the Checkout Session
You can set the Customer email when creating the Checkout Session https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create?lang=php#create_checkout_session-customer_email
To set the name, you would have to create a Customer object beforehand with the name and email you want, then you can pass that Customer's ID to the create call's customer parameter https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create?lang=php#create_checkout_session-customer
real lance
Of course, good luck! Just let us know if you run in to anything else
stoic plinth
Thanks!