Explanation of how this extension works

[patrickyan]

On the forum thread, you mention some sections and fields, but it looks like that was actually before you made the extension.

I get that you pass all the arguments with inputs stripe[blah]. But how does this translate into your Symphony sections?

E.g., after you create a customer, how does the stripe customer ID (example response) get into your Symphony users section? Likewise with the charges.

And along with that, what's the customer link for?

[patrickyan]

I guess I need explanation on this line:

If you want response data saved from the Stripe response into a section, that section needs to have the filter and the section's field handles must match Stripe's response (_ are automatically converted into -, and vice a versa). This allows the greatest flexibility allowing the Symphony CMS developer to choose what information they want to save in the section.

Take this response

{
  "object": "customer",
  "created": 1378743556,
  "id": "cus_2XccWEuqu6Wuqg",
  "livemode": false,
  "description": null,
  "email": null,
  "delinquent": false,
  "subscription": null,
  "discount": null,
  "account_balance": 0,
  "cards": {
    "object": "list",
    "count": 1,
    "url": "/v1/customers/cus_2XccWEuqu6Wuqg/cards",
    "data": [
      {
        "id": "card_2XccD5dkwFCzmU",
        "object": "card",
        "last4": "4242",
        "type": "Visa",
        "exp_month": 3,
        "exp_year": 2054,
        "fingerprint": "qhjxpr7DiCdFYTlH",
        "customer": "cus_2XccWEuqu6Wuqg",
        "country": "US",
        "name": "Asfds Sgf",
        "address_line1": null,
        "address_line2": null,
        "address_city": null,
        "address_state": null,
        "address_zip": null,
        "address_country": null,
        "cvc_check": "pass",
        "address_line1_check": null,
        "address_zip_check": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "default_card": "card_2XccD5dkwFCzmU"
}

I guess I need to add an event on the page for my users section. Then I need to have fields in that section called id, etc. But how does the cards data get stored in a field?

[colinbrogan]

I also ran into the problem of getting stripes 2nd dimension values stored into fields. Looking through the code, I figured how to get them, but I think there is a mistake in how it works. Creating a field called "handle-handle" or "object-object" in the section's event will capture those responses inside "card". I think this was suppose to be "card-handle" and "card-object". You can make this more sensible naming scheme work if you edit stripe/lib/class.stripegeneral.php on line 90:

                foreach($val as $k => $v) {
                    if(!empty($v)) {
                        $key = str_replace('_', '-', $k);
                        $result[$key . '-' . $k] = $v;
                    }
                }

to this:

                foreach($val as $k => $v) {
                    if(!empty($v)) {
                        $k = str_replace('_', '-', $k); //  $key to $k
                        $result[$key . '-' . $k] = $v;
                    }
                }

Also, the Stripe response your trying to store is up to 3 dimensions with the array. To get the stuff inside [cards][data] you could add some more lines to search for those values like this:

                foreach($val as $k => $v) {
                    if(!is_object($v) && !is_array($v) && !empty($v)) {
                        $k = str_replace('_', '-', $k);
                        $result[$key . '-' . $k] = $v;
                    } elseif (!is_object($v) && !empty($v)) {
                        foreach($v as $k2 => $v2) {
                            $k2 = str_replace('_', '-', $k);
                            $result[$key . '-' . $k . '-' . $k2];
                        }
                    }
                }

You should then be able to post to section fields with cards-data-id or cards-data-last4, etc. @lewiswharf : Can I suggest these lines be changed in your repo?

[lewiswharf]

@colinbrogan sorry I missed this issue. Have your modifications been working?

[colinbrogan]

Yes, the first change is in one of my forks. I'm pretty certain that was a coding mistake, no? Did you actually want cards > count in the json to be grabbed from count-count.

I never tried the code for pulling from the 3rd level of nesting in the json, but I'm pretty confident it should work.

This is a bad-ass plugin for a bad-ass payment platform, btw.

[lewiswharf]

I'm pretty certain that was a coding mistake, no?

Yes. Thank you for your comments above. I was pulling hairs getting this extension to work with event filters. It's part of a slow project that is actually going live next week so I will get a chance to find some more stupid mistakes In the coming days.