This is our regularly scheduled user group meeting. In the aftermath of last weeks news about the split of Ubercart and the new Drupal Ecommerce for D7, we might need to think about a new name of our group! In the meantime, we will continue to meet and explore Drupal ecommerce.
Last meeting we had a free-for-all discussion, with questions and answers for Curt and Wilbur, and Will Vincent gave us an excellent presentation of his work at a local hotel/water park website. Will also ran us through his UC Hotel module and Product "Power Tools" for Ubercart module, which seems to be a must-have Ubercart customization module.
The planned part of our meeting is to discuss creating a PayPal sandbox account for testing out your website. We will also have time for show and tell, and Q&A - so bring your questions!
Just to be clear, we meet at the offices of Advantage Labs, in the big conference in back. Parking is available in the lot right behind the building. Come to the back door!
IATP building
2104 Stevens Ave S
Minneapolis, MN
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I probably won't be able to
I probably won't be able to attend the meeting, but just wanted to throw this out there incase others didn't know about it already.
This site provides an awesome replication of the PayPal IPN system. http://www.belahost.com/pp/. Essentially you just need to post the same variables that you would normally send to PayPal to the page linked above. It gives you a form where you can alter all of the PayPal returned values, and then posts an IPN notification back to your server. Super handy for debugging.
Easiest way to use it is add another option to API server select field. Replacing the code in ubercart/payment/uc_paypal/uc_paypal.module
uc_paypal_wpp_settings_form()with something like this:<?php$form['paypal_wpp']['uc_paypal_wpp_server'] = array(
'#type' => 'select',
'#title' => t('API server'),
'#description' => t('Sign up for and use a Sandbox account for testing.'),
'#options' => array(
'https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp' => t('Sandbox'),
'https://api-3t.paypal.com/nvp' => t('Live'),
'http://www.belahost.com/pp/' => t('Belahost IPN'),
),
'#default_value' => variable_get('uc_paypal_wpp_server', 'https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp'),
);
?>
Ubercart User Group Reminder
Just a quick comment to remind everyone about the meeting on Wednesday February 17th at 7pm. Hope to see you there!