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10.2. Integrating Checkout

Because Claudia is using Google Checkout as her preferred eCommerce vendor, you're going to create a very simple integration with Google's HTML API. Essentially, the HTML API allows you to create a form with hidden fields that designate products and their prices.

The names of the fields are important. Google Checkout is expecting fields that are named like this:

item_name_1
item_description_1
item_quantity_1
item_price_1

Obviously, if you have more than one product, you would need item_name_2 and so on. You can also add some other fields for shipping:

ship_method_name_1
ship_method_price_1

For the purposes of this book (as opposed to working with a real, live customer), you're going to assume UPS Ground for shipping and a per-item cost of $5.00. You'll be able to adjust this easily for anything that you need to do.

Here's the confirmorder view. It's basically one big loop through the PHP session cart. Note that anywhere you see "change-this-now," you need to put in Claudia's actual Merchant ID from Google.

<h1>Please Confirm Your Order</h1>
<p>Please confirm your order before clicking the Buy Now button below. If you have
        changes, <?php echo anchor("welcome/cart", "go back to your shopping
        cart");?>.</p>


<form method="POST"
  action="https://checkout.google.com/api/checkout/v2/checkoutForm/Merchant/
        change-this-now" accept-charset="utf-8"> <p> <?php $TOTALPRICE = $_SESSION['totalprice']; if (count($_SESSION['cart'])){ $count = 1; foreach ($_SESSION['cart'] ...