Posted by graham on 12/25/47 11:26

David Dorward wrote:
> graham@jhn316.karoo.co.uk wrote:
>
> > I'm doing a small business website for a relative, which needs a way
> > for customers to submit an order form.
>
> The basic approach is covered here:
> http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Email_form_data
>
> However, since this is an *order* form, I would suspect that you are going
> to be dealing with sensitive data (such as credit card numbers). If so then
> you are going to have to encrypt the data whenever it passes over the wire,
> and need to ensure that it remains secure if it is sitting on the server.
> This seriously adds to the complexity of the issue and given that you
> stated you were a beginner at HTML, I'll assume you aren't expect in all
> the relevant technologies needed.
>
> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside
> suggests that it can handle an existing shopping cart or provide one if you
> don't have such a tool already, so its probably a reasonable approach.
>
>
>
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> David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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Thanks!
Yes i basically agree, we were planning on using paypals e-mail
options which would handle all of the security side of things - these
are very good at billing a customer but how to recive ordering details
isn't so clear on there website - i'm looking for a simple solution to
this just in case paypal e-mail payment services dont cover the
ordering side - your help is much apprciated! - Graham

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