– Massimo

Thanks for the followup! It turns out my client was confused. They said PayPal (the current owners of CyberCash) made them switch last autumn to one of PayPal’s payment methods, PayFlow ProPlus or something… :-)

– John

Wow, good old CyberCash. When I worked with CyberCash, it included the C source code for its client API. Perl source code was included as well, but it used the C link library. I used the C source code to figure out the protocol. I assume others did the same. It was pretty simple stuff… just URL encoded name value pairs via HTTP with some (non-SSL) encryption on top. I have no idea if that source code is still easy to get or even if the API would be the same. There is/was a CyberCash extension for PHP. I just checked Google. The PHP extension I saw assumes you have the C link library from the CyberCash SDK – maybe that is not such a bad option (assuming you can find the C link library). The name/value pairs you pass and receive via PHP should be the same ones they used in Perl.

PJ

I did some Perl-based CyberCash integration in 1998; it really was a convoluted API. Unfortunately, I’ve now got a client who wants to convert a ColdFusion-based CyberCash site to PHP. (Leaving aside the obvious fact that they are insane and should switch to a new payment gateway…) Do you have any/know of any docs on the REST protocol for CyberCash? There is a dearth of information on the net about CyberCash docs.

Thanks! – John

AddressType address = new AddressType();
address.Street1 = CreditCardAddress1;
address.Street2 = CreditCardAddress2;
address.CityName = CreditCardCity;
address.StateOrProvince = CreateStateCode(CreditCardState, “DoDirectPayment”);
address.PostalCode = CreditCardZip;
address.Country = CreateCountryCode(CreditCardCountry, “DoDirectPayment”);
address.CountryName = address.Country.ToString();
address.CountrySpecified = true;

PayerInfoType payerInfo = new PayerInfoType();
payerInfo.Payer = !DbRequest.Singleton.RequestUser.IsSuperAdmin && !DbRequest.Singleton.RequestUser.IsBillingAdmin ? DbRequest.Singleton.RequestUser.Email : null;
payerInfo.PayerName = name;
payerInfo.PayerCountry = address.Country;
payerInfo.Address = address;

As you can see, I use the codes for states and countries, but also fill out the CountryName field. I don’t know for sure that you need both Country and CountryName filled out. The code is working as it is. Weird that PayerInfoType has both PayerCountry and Address (but no PayerCountryName field)…

if I am using the Payflow_dotNET.ddl for my ASP.NET 2.0 web-app how should I pass State and Country values for the BillTo and ShipTo objects? Should I use the 3 digit ISO codes for country and the two-letter ISO codes for state, or should I pass them as “United States” and “Illinois”? Maybe it doesn’t matter either way.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.