What should I do? (update oscommerce to 2.3 for instance?)

[Medworks]

Ok, I'm trying to replace my authorized.net driven merchant account with stripe.com for doing the credit card processing because I don't make enough money to justify a merchant account, my business is failing and I don't even make enough to justify the monthly overhead fees of the authorize.net fees and interchange fees and service fees and under-the-15-dollars-of-processing-fees-per-month fees, and I try to use the module here:

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/9078

 

referenced in this forum chain:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/topic/382611-support-for-stripecom/

 

The problem is, that it doesn't work. At the very least, not with oscommerce 2.2. And it CLAIMS to. I created my own forum thread asking for help here:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/topic/408532-getting-stripecom-addon-to-work/

 

No one did. That harald ponce de leon does not respond to PMs either. I also see that in the original forum thread, that a user named psxgunman claimed to have made his OWN module that he created out of a zencart module. He hasn't signed in for over a year, I see. I PMd him just in case and lo and behold, he hasn't responded.

 

So. The question is. If I were to overhaul my website's oscommerce:

 

http://www.medexamtools.com/oscommerce1

 

to oscommerce 2.3 instead of 2.2, would it actually work with the accursed stripe.com module made by harald ponce de leon, or would it still not work? How feasible would that be? I have done so much to it myself. I have created all sorts of special modules and stuff myself. I have all sorts of things in there. Like I made my own shipping modules. My own low order fee module. I don't even remember what I did. Is there by any stroke of luck, some core set of files that I replace, and that's all "upgrading" oscommerce 2.2 to 2.3 means? I just want a stupid stripe.com module that works though, that's all I want. Please, someone help.

[Jack_mcs]

I think when Harold says it is compatible with 2.2 he means the RC version, though I may be wrong. You can test the module on this site. If it doesn't work, you could try placing a bug report and one of the team members may look at it. But since the stripe module doesn't get much use, based on the posts I see here, it doesn't get much attention either. If you want to be sure it will work, install the bootstrap version (the stripe module is included). See here for update instructions.

[Medworks]

The "RC" version? But my version DOES say it's the "RC" version. Anyway, what about the other angle of attack, what exactly is involved in changing the oscommerce version. What exactly needs to be changed? Or does everything need to be taken down and put back up. Because I couldn't do the latter. But maybe I could the former. Maybe changing the oscommerce version is just changing some stupid php files somewhere. Because I don't know. I'm just assumed to know all this or something. I don't know how to take down all my sql tables and restore them later, nor would I be sure they'd fit the same format, and there are so many bits and pieces, what with the custom modules in php I wrote myself using what limited knowledge I was able to figure out myself.

 

Oh, I don't think a member of the "team" is ever going to look at it. There's only one forum thread for it, and mine has been the second to last post, detailing the nature of the problem, for many months now. I have brainstormed for a long time what to do about the problem, and I have gone to stripe, and no one is forthcoming and nothing I do works.

[Medworks]

Unless you mean "rc" as in like rc1, as opposed to rc2, which is what mine says. I would have thought rc2 would be an improvement though.

[Jack_mcs]

There are versions of oscommerce before the RC series but as long as yours is one of those versions, the module should work, according to the docs. Regarding upgrading, see the link in my previous post.

[Medworks]

Don't just tell me it works because the docs say that it works. It doesn't. I guarantee you, it doesn't. I say that not according to the docs but according to reality because I tried it and it didn't work, not with it on sandbox mode and not when I used my actual own credit card with it on live mode. I went into detail in my earlier forum thread about what happens. And it's not that I'm inept and don't know how to put in a module. I meticulously put in every file and directory that was in that zip file into my file structure in the appropriate places. And there were more things than there are with the other modules. Most of them, it's just a php file in the languages/english directory and a php file in the modules directory, but this had additional junk all over the place, and I tried it with and without that additional junk too.

 

I tried to throw something together that would do this - maybe you or someone will know how to do this, how to execute my idea. On stripe's website, they give the following code:

 

<form action="" method="POST">
  <script
    src="https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js"class="stripe-button"
    data-key="privatekey"
    data-amount=1000
    data-name="Demo Site"
    data-description="Charge card for this order"
    data-image="/128x128.png"
    data-locale="auto">
  </script>
</form>
 

And that charges 10 dollars. That's GREAT. If I wanted to copy and paste that code to every part of my website. And ignore the fact that it won't calculate shipping total by weight because it won't know how much they weigh, and it won't figure out shipping total by location, or calculate sales tax, or any of the other stuff, it's just usable for charging a hard-coded literal amount like 10 dollars, and that's all stripe wants me to do because they're a bunch of nutjobs who don't want to give me any help doing what I actually want to do and would be useful.

 

Now MY idea, was that instead of data-amount=1000 (I guess it's number of cents, that could create a problem, it might need to be multiplied by 100 potentially), to use the variable $order->info['total'] and to have this code be on the last page of checkout in a duplicate copy of the "check or money order" module, so that it could use the order total calculated by the rest of the workings of the shopping cart, to add the right total to the stripe shopping cart. There still would be a SECOND shopping cart for stripe, which would be ugly, but it would get the job done. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be a place for me to enter this code in the php code anyway, it wanted C++ looking code, not html looking code in the only place which could access the variable $order->info['total'] so I didn't know how this could be accomplished, it was mixing apples and oranges. But that's my idea. Anyone who knows a simple way to do it, please let me know, or if you can fix the stupid stripe oscommerce module so that it ACTUALLY works, then please do so, but don't just tell me that it already works and that I'm mental, because it does not work.

[Jack_mcs]

I was trying to help. If I called you mental, or implied that, it wasn't meant that way. Maybe someone less antagonistic than me can help you.

[Medworks]

Maybe someone less antagonistic than you can help me? Great idea! Don't forget to mention with less arrogance masquerading as humility and fake-politeness though, because those are also excellent traits. So anyone out there who's listening, I would be pleased as punch if someone less antagonistic and with less arrogance masquerading and fake-politeness as humility than Jack_mcs would please help out, and then maybe there would be a version of the stripe module that would actually work, for everyone to use! Thanks a bunch!

[♥14steve14]

May be you would be better off posting in the paid for help area of the forum. You will then get someone who will do a great job for you, and you can then release it back to the community.

 

The other alternative is to convince stripe to help and then release it back to others. If you can convince the payment provider to do something that would be so much better as its then an official download and should work faultlessly.

[burt]

@@Medworks I suggest that you take a step back and re-read your comments in this thread.  

An apology from you is warranted, especially to Jack, who is trying to help you.

[♥toyicebear]

Maybe someone less antagonistic than you can help me? Great idea! Don't forget to mention with less arrogance masquerading as humility and fake-politeness though, because those are also excellent traits. So anyone out there who's listening, I would be pleased as punch if someone less antagonistic and with less arrogance masquerading and fake-politeness as humility than Jack_mcs would please help out, and then maybe there would be a version of the stripe module that would actually work, for everyone to use! Thanks a bunch!

Don't bite the hand that's trying to feed you.

 

1. Contact stripe and ask for a module that works for old and "outdated" oscommerce versions.

 

Or

 

2. Update to the latest's stable version of Oscommerce and use the stripe module designated for that version.

 

or

 

3. Hire someone to fix this issue for you.