Solution, simple cart, Payment Gateway Api,

I am trying to figure out how to make the worlds simplest cart to work with and existing Api.PHP that was given to me by my merchant account/gateway.

I have one product with a set price. I do not need, a catalog page, product details page or all of the other parts that come with shopping carts.

I know that form collects the user info and then uses the post method to the api.php.

My question is, can it be a simple html form, with no database connection or anything. Does the form fields have to be assigned php variables?

Thank you,
Michael:thumbsup:

you do not need a database connection....you could do it via ftp...
save each file as
orderid.username.html
then to call that you could use preg_match(); to look for a specific id or specific username or even a partial match could be made.....

and for you form question are you refering to POST and GET variables?

You don't need a database or FTP if you don't want it. Simply post the details like you mentioned before.

well then you can not prove any orders were made etc.....you should at least give it ftp or DB capabilities. just my opinion

thank you all, I will work on it some, and see if I can get it to work.

Yes I am getting the Post Variable of html mixed up with the direct post method the Api uses with the gateway. I basically just want to feed the user iput to the gateway through the api.