September 14, 2010

Authorize.NET – The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive

Filed under: E-commerce — Tags: Authorize.NET, CakePHP — Doug Hays @ 10:28 pm

I’m adding Authorize.NET to one of my client’s CakePHP apps and used the Authorize.NET CakePHP Component which saved me a world of time.

But, after setting everything up, I ran my first transaction and got this error: The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive. I double checked my API Login ID and Transaction Key and they were correct. Finally, I stumbled on a helpful thread that set me in the right direction.

I was using the test.authorize.net URL but that is only for developer accounts. Even if you are in Test mode, but have a ‘Normal’ Authorize.NET account, you need to use the secure.authorize.net URL.

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January 11, 2010

Calling CakePHP Code from Other PHP Code

Filed under: CakePHP — Tags: CakePHP, Non-CakePHP — Doug Hays @ 11:13 pm

In order to call CakePHP from non-CakePHP code, we will copy index.php from /app/webroot and put it into our non-CakePHP codebase as cakephp.php.

Then, we’ll create a function requestCakePHP that requires the cakephp.php file:
function requestCakePHP($url)


{           
    // Set the url parameter for cakephp

    $_GET['url'] = $url;
    require_once 'cakephp.php';
    // Fire up CakePHP and buffer results

    ob_start();

    $Dispatcher= new Dispatcher ();

    $Dispatcher->dispatch($url);       
    return ob_get_clean();

} ?>

Then, whenever we need to call for some Cake, we just call requestCake with the URL minus the hostname:

echo requestCakePHP("/webpages/view/2");

In the example above, I have a webpages controller, a view action and am viewing webpage #2.

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