[Catalyst] Catalyst and PayPal

[Angel Kolev]

Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I dont need FormFu, because i will use Template toolkit only. May be 
Catalyst::Controller::Business::Paypal is good enough solution. Im not 
familiar with paypal, but can i test some payments without "real" money 
transactions?