Fast, free of bullshit and junior friendly tutorial to make PayPal simple charges with Laravel.

Install the package

Run this command in your project route:
```
composer require srmklive/paypal:~3.0
```

Publish PayPal configuration

php artisan vendor:publish --provider "Srmklive\PayPal\Providers\PayPalServiceProvider"

A config/paypal.php file will be created.

Add this lines to your .env file in your root folder.

PAYPAL_MODE=sandbox
PAYPAL_SANDBOX_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_CLIENT_ID
PAYPAL_SANDBOX_CLIENT_SECRET=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET

PAYPAL_LIVE_CLIENT_ID=
PAYPAL_LIVE_CLIENT_SECRET=

Where the fuck I'm gettin my Paypal credentials

Follow this link developer.paypal.com/developer/applications
Log in with your paypal account.
On the sidebar click "My Apps and Credentials"
Click default application
Copy your CLIENT_ID and click "show" in order to see your SECRET token

Ok, now what?

Make a controller named PaypalController

php artisan make:controller PaypalController

Create routes for the controller in your routes/web.php file

use App\Http\Controllers\PaypalController;

Route::get('/paypal', [PaypalController::class, 'payment']);
Route::get('/paypal/capture', [PaypalController::class, 'capture'])->name('paypal.capture');

Copy and paste this shit into your PaypalController.php file

namespace  App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use  PayPal;

class  PaypalController  extends  Controller
{

  private  $paypal;

  public  function  __construct()
  {
    $provider = PayPal::setProvider();

    // Get configuration from config/paypal.php
    $provider->setApiCredentials(config('paypal'));
    // Required access token for the Api
    $provider->getAccessToken();
    // Set your currency (uppercase)
    $provider->setCurrency('USD');
    // Save into private $paypal class variable
    $this->paypal = $provider;
  }

  public function payment()
  {
      $result = $this->paypal->createOrder([
        "application_context" => [
          // Redirect buyer to the route we defined in web.php
          "return_url" => route('paypal.capture')
        ],
        "intent"=> "CAPTURE",
        "purchase_units"=> [
            [
              "description" => "My product in MXN currency",
              "amount"=> [
                "value"=> "179.00",
                "currency_code"=> "MXN",
              ]
            ]
        ]
      ]);

      return $result;
  }

  public function capture(Request $request)
  {
   // Paypal will redirect with [token] and [PayerId] GET URL parameters.
   // Capture the order to get the founds into your account
   return $this->paypal->capturePaymentOrder($request->get('token'));
  }

}

Copied, whats next?

Open your browser and go to /paypal url if everything is working ok you should be redirected to paypal.com to complete the checkout

How can I pay the order without a bank account?

Go to this link => developer.paypal.com/developer/accounts
Login if needed
A list of fake accounts will be displayed
Click View/Edit account under "Manage Accounts" column
Copy email and password

In order to make cool requests to the Paypal Api, you should see this links:

What parameters should I send to paypal->createOrder method? developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#or..

How can I set Taxes, a list of items, etc? developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#de..

Want to know how this works?

Basically we connect to paypal with your CLIENT_ID and SECRET We are in sandbox mode by default (testing the software)

Put special attention on return_url parameter inside payment method in PaypalController. this will be the url your customer will be redirected once he completes the order.

I used the route laravel function to redirect them to /paypal/capture

Ok once your customer lands into /paypal/capture with an URL parameter provided by paypal (/paypal/capture?token=XDXDXDXDXD)

We ask Paypal Api to capture the payment and send the money to our account.

Yep.

So.

Thats it.

I spent a whole day trying to figure it out how this fucking package works.

I even opened this blog because I want you to stop loosing time

Get this api working in a record time

and start developing the real app youre making

im sure it will be amazing

so thanks for read

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