[Catalyst] Catalyst and PayPal

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On 21 Apr 2008, at 21:22, Angel Kolev wrote:
>
> > Hi fellas.
> > I plan to include PayPal payment possibility in my cat website. Is there
> any plugin/tool that works with the paypal developers toolkit
> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/pdn/software_dev_kit_php-outside
> > Can anyone give me a direction
> >
>
>
>  http://search.cpan.org/~mock/Business-PayPal/  # simplest
>  http://search.cpan.org/~scottw/Business-PayPal-API # newest and probably
> most complete
>  http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/Business-PayPal-IPN # most reviewed on
> cpanratings.
>
>  Whichever one you go with a base controller (e.g.
> Catalyst::Controller::Business::Paypal) onto cpan would be appreciated.

I am not so sure if the, often repeated here, advice to build
everything as a base controller is a good one.  Let's say you would
like to use the PayPal thing and FormFu - and bang you are dealing
with the tricky area of Multiple Inheritance.  'Composition over
Inheritance' is popular in other circles.

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Zbigniew Lukasiak
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