This tutorial will help you to integrate PayPal payment gateway using PHP with an example. I will walk you through a step by step process and make it easy for you do the integration.
You will learn about three things today,
- How to integrate PayPal payment gateway in your application and process payments.
- What is PayPal IPN, why you should use it and an example implementation.
- How to test PayPal payment gateway integration using PayPal sandbox.
PayPal provides different options to integrate the gateway like,
- PayPal Payments Standard
- Checkout
- PayPal Commerce Platform
- Recurring payments using PayPal Subscriptions
- Payouts
- Invoicing
- Accept card payments
- PayPal Pro
In this example, we will use “PayPal Payments Standard” method for integrating the payment gateway.