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Rest API Samples
This sample project is a simple web app that you can explore to understand what the payment APIs can do for you.
To try out the sample, run composer update --no-dev from the PayPal-PHP-SDK folder and you are all set.
Running Samples
PHP 5.4 or higher
- If you are running PHP 5.4 or greater, PHP provides a built-in support for hosting PHP sites.
- The fastest way to get it running is
php -f sample/index.php
- This would get the built-in web server started, and hosted on `http://localhost:5000'
LM-AUN-00876403:PayPal-PHP-SDK japatel$ php -f sample/index.php
PHP 5.5.14 Development Server started at Wed Nov 19 21:07:52 2014
Listening on http://localhost:5000
Document root is /Users/japatel/Documents/workspace/Server-SDK/PayPal-PHP-SDK/sample
Press Ctrl-C to quit.
[Wed Nov 19 21:07:56 2014] ::1:60826 [200]: /index.php
...
PHP 5.3 or less
- You could host the entire project in your local web server, by using tools like MAMP or XAMPP.
- Once done, you could easily open the samples by opening the matching URL. For e.g.:
http://localhost/PayPal-PHP-SDK/sample/index.html
You should see a sample dashboard page as shown below:
Running on console
Please note that there are few samples that requires you to have a working local server, to receive redirects when user accepts/denies PayPal Web flow
- To run samples itself on console, you need to open command prompt, and direct to samples directory.
- Execute the sample php script by using
php -fcommand as shown below:
php -f payments/CreatePaymentUsingSavedCard.php
The result would be as shown below:
Configuration
The sample comes pre-configured with a test account but in case you need to try them against your account, you must
- Obtain your client id and client secret from the developer portal
- Update the bootstrap.php file with your new client id and secret.
More Help
If you are looking for a full fledged application that uses the new RESTful APIs, check out the Pizza store sample app at https://github.com/paypal/rest-api-sample-app-php