Writing my own Payment Module?

[Rayston]

Can anyone point me to the proper resources for writing my own payment module for Zen-Cart?

Thank you

Del

[x-tremeentertainment]

Do you know how to write php? If you do it depends on what gateway you are going to use. I use PnP and they provide a section on their website that has all the information that is needed to be submitting to them in order for the payment module to work.

[Rayston]

I know a little, and im a quick learner. I dont expect this to be quick.

I hope to get a payment module working to send transactions directly to TSYS acquring (used to be Vital, and before that was referred to as VisaNet) rather than thru a gateway like authorize.net .

I was looking more for zen-cart specific tips maybe even a kind of walkthrough that talks about general techniques and conventions and file locations but it looks like that may not be available. Not really surprising as I am aware that this is a relatively involved process that isnt really suited to an easy to follow walkthrough.

Thank you

Del

[x-tremeentertainment]

So you are wanting to make a payment module more like a smart screen? Meaning you want a customer to order on our site and all the information transfered to your processers website for final check-out on their SSL server.<p> It might be hard to get the information that is needed for zen-cart if you dont know php good. I think really the only way to find out is study zen-carts files and learn it.....
i have been having trouble getting a payment module to work with the new update version of Zen on my site and I had to start from sratch, but i used the basic structure of the old payment module and tweaked it alittle to get it to work. I still am almost done with it... It is the updated version of PnP payment Module for zen v 1.3x....

[DrByte]

The details are very sparse at the present time:
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...pers_-_Modules

[Rayston]

Thats what I was talking about, I was hoping for some more info, but again, not surprised.

Thank you

Del

[x-tremeentertainment]

This might help you out alittle but not much more than what DrByte has to offer
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Developers_-_Payment_Classes
You will also need the info for the gateway or smart screen that you are using.. Every credit card processing company has different information that they request in code from your payment module on your online store when a submit button is pressed... Its just something that you will have to paly around with... This is just a question but dont TSYS supply a paymet module for you?. If no I have an project that i was brought onto for using a sertian payment module from zen and using it for your own. Great Idea and it works I am doing it in my store right now. PM me and I will give you details... I am going to put it in the contributions here when I know all the bugs are out of it..

[Rayston]

Actually, that looks quite usefull.

No, TSYS will not provide a payment module. They provide specifications on exactly what needs to be sent to them, and how. (what fields, how long they can be, etc. etc. ) but no actual code.

I will PM you right away regarding that last.

[jacobs]

Hey guys, sorry for digging this old post, but i'm stuck in the same problem... lack of documentation.

I need to create a VisaNet-VBV (Brazil) payment module but I can't find any resource for starting development.

Can anyone point me out a tutorial or a good "starting point" for developers? I found zen-cart's wiki too much empty.

[jacobs]

For those that are stuck with lack of information, I fond a small how-to on the osCommerce foruns (they seem to be much more active than zen-cart community).

forums.oscommerce.com/topic/187772-payment-module-development-how-to/

Can someone contribute with other sources of information, related to payment module dev?