By rszrama on

This is just a general announcement to interested parties. The latest version of Ubercart (Alpha 7) released this evening is now a PayPal Certified solution for Website Payments Standard, Website Payments Pro credit card processing, and PayPal Express Checkout. I know many store owners are specifically looking for this functionality, so I spent about 40 hours nailing down the integration and communicating back and forth with PayPal to get certified. Payments are reported to Ubercart using PayPal's IPN as well. Other community developers are actively producing a Payflow Pro module for use, too.

You can read more about the PayPal integration here: http://www.ubercart.org/paypal

The latest release also brings us a huge step closer toward dropping the "Alpha" from our version numbers. We're still aggressively adding new features and expanding the API (still? after so many months?? well... yes), but the releases placed on Drupal.org do not include any broken or half-working features. At least a dozen sites have gone live using Ubercart already, and you can see them listed on the project page. Two good examples of highly customized Drupal/Ubercart installations can be seen here:

Artez'n - http://www.artezn.com
Blankstyle - http://www.blankstyle.com

I'm excited about the continued development as several active developers and development studios have started pitching into the effort. I expect to see many more awesome sites rolled out in the near future, and hopefully we'll finally put the project to good use for our own sites.

Have a great weekend!

-Ryan of Ubercart.org

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erlendstromsvik’s picture

erlendstromsvik commented

Ubercart has been a blast to work with.
Looking forward to being able to continue working with Drupal/Ubercart :)

Erlend Strømsvik
erlend@nymedia.no
Ny Media AS - www.nymedia.no

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frankschaap commented

Quick note with regard to those two shops: if you browse without support for cookies (and javascript), you simply get a message "no items in cart" after clicking on the "add to cart" button.

While the vast hordes of internet shoppers will simply use whatever version of IE came packed with their computer, it's probably still better to do a serverside check of whether the browser supports javascript and accepts cookies.

I think most security conscious people will actually appreciate a block in the page telling them that the site requires cookies (and/or javascript) turned on, because that informs them quickly about why a site might not function properly (no, you don't have to switch to IE for it to work) and make an informed decision about whether they'll allow this site or not.

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rszrama commented

Curious... I haven't checked anything for cookie support but can't imagine how that or Javascript support would be affecting adding items to the cart. Items are simply stored in the cart based on either the user's ID or session_id for anonymous users, and the forms have nothing to do with JS. Thanks for bringing it up. I'll look into the issue a little more when I can, but if you see the problem I'd be happy to hear it. ; )

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frankschaap commented

I'm using Firefox 2 with the NoScript and PermitCookies add-ons. Cookies are denied by default and I only allow them on a site by site basis. Next to that I'm running the Adblock add-on.

If I go to any random product and click 'add to cart' it comes back with "There are no products in your shopping cart."

I need to allow session cookies at minimum to get the cart to remember my order. I haven't proceeded to try check-out though.

Congrats on the Paypal certification btw! That's great news :-)