Paypal integration package with php — laravel

2 min readJan 15, 2021

So due to the high demand in requests of PayPal integration in some of the projects that I am working on. I decided to build a component package that I can re-use, this package is built on PHP Laravel framework.

The package can be found on github https://github.com/dbrax/paypal-laravel

Here is a short documentation of how to install and use the package

How the package communicates with paypal

Installation

Laravel Version: => 7.1
PHP Version: => 7.1

You can install the package via composer:

composer require epmnzava/paypal-laravel

Update your config (for Laravel 5.4 and below)

Add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php:

"Epmnzava\PaypalLaravel\PaypalLaravelServiceProvider"::class

Add the facade to the aliases array in config/app.php:

'Paypal'=>Epmnzava\PaypalLaravel\PaypalLaravelFacade::class,

Publish the package configuration (for Laravel 5.4 and below)

Publish the configuration file and migrations by running the provided console command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Epmnzava\PaypalLaravel\PaypalLaravelServiceProvider"

Environmental Variables

PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID your provided paypal client id

PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET your provided paypal client secret

PAYPAL_REDIRECT_URL your redirect url

PAYPAL_CANCEL_URL your cancel url

PAYPAL_ENVIRONMENT your environment either test or production

PAYPAL_CURRENCY_CODE currency put TZS for Tanzanian Shillings

PAYPAL_ORG_NAME your organization name

Usage

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Paypal;
class TestController extends Controller
{
        public function simplepay_by_paypal(){$response=Paypal::CreatePayment("5","0","0","1","Payment for basket ball");
    $payment_id=$response["order_id"];return redirect($response["checkout_link"]);

If you receive any errors or issues please let me know on the issue tracker or by mail epmnzava@gmail.com.

Cheers.!