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Pro PayPal E-Commerce (Expert's Voice)
by Damon Williams
from Apress

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• nothing you cannot get from official documentation but...
  This book doesn't offer nothing that you can't get from official documentation, but, sometimes look for answers in the paypal docs is time-consuming, and not as effective as whished. This book recopilates and order all that information in one resource, and that is the main reason to get it. I find specially interesting the appendix with all variables supported for the different paypal solutions.
  I will give it more value if the book make an effort to give more information than the official doc. For... more info

• If your a PHP Programmer...
  If your a PHP programmer I would recommend that you buy both this book and the book "Web API's with PHP". Neither of the books is a one-stop solution for integrating paypal with php. But, using the books in conjunction with each other, an experienced programmer shouldn't have any trouble taming PayPal. Learning to uses the PDT, IPN or API from these two books is FAR EASIER than trying to chase down answers on PayPal's site and web forums.
  

• What you need, when you need it.
  Starts by providing an overview of the methods available to interface with PayPal. Enough for you to decide the one(s) you need.
  Each chapter then describes how to implement those methods. Example code is given. Nice charts and figures.
  Useful for someone who needs to actually do the work.

• Good until you get to Paypal API
  The book did a good job of covering everything EXCEPT the Paypal API. It had a smattering of samples in PHP, Java, C#, VB, and Perl up until that point.
  Once the PayPal API is discussed, there are only a couple of samples and everything in Java despite the growing (and perhaps exceeding) popularity of PHP for website development. While not entirely the author's fault given the poor shape of PayPal PHP SDK, it was disappointing that so little time and explaination was given on how to use Paypal's API.... more info

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