SMS pay system via PHP

[auriaks]

Hi all,

I am looking for help creating SMS system which would help me to collect paid services.

Can this be done via PHP? Also there is one site which is in english, so you can understand what they say about something like system I need and also that site allows working into my country...

Here it is: HERE

If you need more questions - ask...
If you know some tutorials - let me know...

Thanks in advance.

[djr33]

It's possible, but making one yourself is a bad idea.

I suggest looking at the many free or paid "shopping cart" CMS systems or business CMS systems, etc. There are a lot.

If you do decide to code this yourself you will be taking a major security risk: if you create your personal website and someone hacks it, then it's a problem, but not a huge problem. If you create a business website that has credit card information and someone hacks it, it is a huge problem.

Of course it's possible to make it secure, but unless you REALLY trust your coding skills (and to be honest you probably wouldn't be asking us here how to do it if you did), then it's a risk.
I wouldn't suggest it.

I hope this helps!

[auriaks]

It's possible, but making one yourself is a bad idea.

I suggest looking at the many free or paid "shopping cart" CMS systems or business CMS systems, etc. There are a lot.

If you do decide to code this yourself you will be taking a major security risk: if you create your personal website and someone hacks it, then it's a problem, but not a huge problem. If you create a business website that has credit card information and someone hacks it, it is a huge problem.

Of course it's possible to make it secure, but unless you REALLY trust your coding skills (and to be honest you probably wouldn't be asking us here how to do it if you did), then it's a risk.
I wouldn't suggest it.

I hope this helps!

But there is no need to do shoping cart... they get a "code", enter it in their SMS and send to direct number... After that, money from their mobile account will be decreased.

The problem: I dont know how to give the right code which would work further in site I reffered...
The codes must be made automatically when user wants and it must be authentic.

How to make this work:

user chooses to order a service -> pushes on the service button -> message comes "Please send this code 59s4d84f1sd8 by number 1869 and you will get the service you wanted" -> He sends SMS or exits -> if sends SMS, the provided site (webtopay.com) gets code, decreases user's money and sends the answer to MY site which would do the following. IF he Exits, code will be alive for 3hours and then be deactivated.

If you need more info ask...
I think this "SMS" type of paying is SAFE and more EASY. Can you help me with this?

Thanks in advance.

[traq]

how does webtopay work? do they provide the codes, or do you provide the codes to the client and to webtopay?

also, from your description above, it looks like webtopay is an outside service (correct?) and they deal with the SMS message, not you (correct?)

[djr33]

Then basically you're just using paypal [for example] integrated into your site. You can do it with a number of services, and if you're ok with that, then sure you can use PHP to make this work. I'm not sure how you would interact with the service (I'm sure they can tell you), but this means the customer doesn't pay on your site-- they pay the service. This does not look so professional, but it's a good solution for small businesses.

Still, though, I do recommend being very careful because once you deal with money and payments, EVEN if they are done through an outside site, you need to be careful about how secure your website is.