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    Database Session Handler

    in PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide (3rd Edition)

    Posted

    Hi Larry,

    This time it is me that is sorry re the delay in responding.  I have just started changing over from Win 7 to Win 10 which is inhibiting my ability to test your proposed solution. I have a LOT of stuff on the Win 7 PC so am taking it very carefully - bit by bit - as I make the change to the (separate) Win 10 PC.   Also am making the change from Windows Live Mail to Outlook and that's not as straight-forward as one might imagine especially as I want to migrate all my email storage folders over to Outlook.

    I will test your suggestion as soon as I can but it might be a couple of weeks before I can - and please accept my apologies for my tardiness.

    Cheers from Oz.

    STRIPE Capturing Charges

    in Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition)

    Posted

    Mmmm, I have the charge captured now but to be truthful I don't properly understand this.

    I retrieved the id from the response body:

    $charge__id = $charge->id;
    $charge = \Stripe\Charge::retrieve($charge__id);
    $charge->capture();

    and the id is clearly not the token.  So I hope that I am doing it correctly!

    A further query, I cannot see 'response_reason_text' in the log so maybe it is only there if the charge gets rejected?

    Again, any advice will be most appreciated.

    Thanks, Necuima

    STRIPE Capturing Charges

    in Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition)

    Posted

    Thanks to the advice received, I am making progress.  I can send a charge for payment and receive confirmation that it is marked as 'paid'.

    But I have a puzzlement re page 518 re 'capturing charges'.  Firstly, it seems that the charge_id is the token - is my understanding on this point correct?  I used that anyway in the 'retrieve' statement and it did not object.  (I am adapting Larry's code here for my own purposes, in fact a single charge).

    The '$charge->paid returns true which I test in my code and I can also see it in the Stripe test log.  It does this whether I invoke the 'retrieve' and 'capture' statements or not.

    But the dashboard does not show any $s even though I have now sent dozens of charges all of which have returned true for paid.

    Any advice will be most appreciated and thank you in anticipation.

    Necuima

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    Chapter 15 Stripe

    in Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition)

    Posted

    It's OK - I tried \Stripe\Charge:: etc and that did not give the error.

    But now I have another error which seems to be associated with an SSL certificate.  As mentioned I am trying to test this on localhost which, in my case, does not have an SSL certificate.

    I understood from a previous query on Stripe that I could test this from localhost without my XAMPP/Apache having an SSL certificate.  Have I mis-understood this?

    The beginning of the error is:

    "An error occurred in script 'C:\xampp\htdocs\DMChat\modules\process_payment.php' on line 213: Stripe\Error\ApiConnection Object ( [message:protected] => Unexpected error communicating with Stripe. If this problem persists, let us know at support@stripe.com. (Network error [errno 77]: error setting certificate verify ..............."

    This was from the catch block:

    catch (Exception $e)
         { // Try block failed somewhere else.
          trigger_error(print_r($e, 1));
         }

    Again, your advice will be most appreciated,

    Necuima

    P.S., you can probably figure out that I am using your model/view/controller approach from the advanced book :-)

    Chapter 15 Stripe

    in Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition)

    Posted

    Hi Larry,

    I am trying to use Stripe from my localhost and have established a test account with Stripe Australia.

    I am getting error "Class 'Stripe\Stripe_Charge' not found in .....on line 182 -  I am on page 508 in the book.

    I have Stack-Overflowed and tried their solutions but none work.

    I am not able to use composer as I'm using PHP 5.5.3 on Windows 7 so I did the manual download and as far as I can tell all that is OK.

    Again, any advice will be most appreciated.

    Cheers, Necuima

     

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    Stripe - Not Receiving $_POST data

    in Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition)

    Posted · Edited by Necuima

    Hi Larry,

    I am trying to use STRIPE for the first time. I have set up a test account and that seems to be OK.

    I am adapting your form in billing.html but in a PHP script.  The validation of my data via the ajax call to Stripe is OK as I am able to submit the form but when I check what data are received by my adaptation of your billing.php I can see the posted token but no form data.  My form is attached.

    Can you see what I am doing wrong please?

    Thanks, Necuima

     

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    Database Session Handler

    in PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide (3rd Edition)

    Posted

    Hi Larry,

    I have been using your database session handler for quite some time now in my Windows 7 environment but have run into a problem when I try to use it in a new PC set up with Windows 10 and Apache/PHP 7.3.7 (64 bit).

    I keep getting an error: "An error occurred in script 'C:\xampp\htdocs\....php' on line 53: session_write_close(): Session callback expects true/false return value" and I am getting this error everywhere that I have used 'session_write_close()' as per page 95 of the book (that's in dozens of places).

    Is it perhaps not needed in Win 10 with a fairly current Apache/PHP install?  Or do I need to code it differently?

    Any advice will be most appreciated and thanks in anticipation.

     

    Magick++, Imagick, XAMPP

    in C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide

    Posted

    In case you need to have both C++/Magick++ and Imagick on your PC (localhost), after much trial and error I found, with thanks to those who posted the guidances and data following, how to install it correctly.  My environment is Windows 10 with the latest 64bit XAMPP from: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

    I installed XAMPP/PHP version 7.3.7.  My development environment in this case is Visual Studio 2019 and Dreamweaver CS6.

    The primary guidance is from: https://herbmiller.me/installing-imagick-php-7/ with many thanks to this gentleman.  But if you follow this exactly you will not have C++/Magick++ available.

    Regarding compatible Imagick dlls and ImageMagick versions, see also: https://mlocati.github.io/articles/php-windows-imagick.html with thanks to Michele.  But again, the ImageMagick zips will not give you the C++/Magick++ headers or sub-directories.

    For that you need to do the ImageMagick install from an exe and you can get this from: https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/ImageMagick/binaries/ with many thanks to that institution.  You need to select the C and C++ headers option as well as the legacy option during the installation.

    You need to be extremely careful to install the correct/compatible versions in all cases as advised in Herb Miller's post.

    By following this guidance exactly I managed to get one installation of ImageMagick with the PHP/Imagick and Magick++ functionality available.

    Cheers

     

    C++ with PHP - Possible?

    in C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide

    Posted

    Hi Larry,  back in April I was looking for a way for a C++ front-end to 'communicate' with a PHP back-end with all functionality being on one PC?  I.e., the implementation of PHP in my case would be via XAMPP.

    On April 21st I reported that I had tried to use cpprestsdk (Casablanca) with a Windows Form via Visual Studio but that did not work.

    But today I managed to get the functionality to work perfectly by developing the form with Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) which I had never used before :-)  That took over 2 months - just as well that I am retired and have the time (and perseverance :-)  The IDE was VS2015/19 Community Editions.

    Just FYI, Cheers

     

    C++ with PHP - Possible?

    in C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide

    Posted

    Hi Larry,

    Thanks as always for your interest and advice.

    As an aside I had not used FLEX/WindowedApplication for a few years so I was a bit rusty but all OK again now.  Referred to your FLEX and AIR books both of which I have.  I now have the application working just fine on both Win7/PHP 5.6 and on a separate computer with Win 10 and PHP 7.1

    Cheers from Oz, Necuima

    C++ with PHP - Possible?

    in C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide

    Posted · Edited by Necuima
    Added more information

    Hi Larry,

    I am missing something.  I select a file or a directory on my PC in a PHP script which includes an HTML form and within the form I use upload.  Then on the redux pass I can move that file to a server location and do some stuff with it.  No problem.  But what I want to do is do some stuff to the file on the PC which I can do if I know the full path of the selected file.  And in a slightly different PHP script I want to select a directory on my PC and get its full path so that I can then iterate over the files therein and do stuff to them.

    What am I missing? And thank you as always.

    Cheers

    P.S., using a C++ front end or a Flash front-end program I can get the full path names of files and directories on my PC.  Then, at least the Flash case, I can pass those data to a PHP back-end which nicely does what I want it to do for those selected files on my PC.  I do not want this functionality for files on an external web-server.

    C++ with PHP - Possible?

    in C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide

    Posted · Edited by Necuima
    Added some more information

    Hi Larry,

    FYI I installed cpprestsdk and associated it with Visual Studio 2019 and yes, a test C++ program successfully called and received a response from an external website.

    BUT (isn't there often a BUT) when I tried to integrate the code that uses cpprestsdk into a Windows form application, I found out that they are incompatible!

    Well, it was an interesting learning exercise :-)

    As an aside, I found it quite tricky to install cpprestsdk but carefully following guidance courtesy Dr Google I eventually managed to get it installed and working with VS2019 (but not VS2017) in a Windows 10 PC.

    Thanks for your interest.

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