aPapi - A Paypal API

A Paypal API is a class written in PHP that allows website developers and other PHP users to retreive their Paypal account balance and recent transactions from the Paypal server.

This might be useful if you're having a fund raising event and want to display the current balance and last donater on your own website

aPapi uses the program curl or the built in PHP curl to get the data. If you don't have it, you can download it from http://curl.haxx.se/download/

To use aPapi see the example.php file.

You just need to include the Paypal file, then initialize the class. Set your email and password, then get the balance

  require_once("Paypal.php");
  $p = new Paypal();
  
  $p->SetEmail("email@test.com");
  $p->SetPassword("mypass");

The balance is saved in a scalar variable.

  $bal = $p->GetBalance();

The recent transactions are saved in an array of arrays. In the example.php, the transactions are saved in the array. You can see the structure of the array with the print_r() function.

   $trans = $p->GetTransactions();

But for those of you who are lazy, this is the array structure

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [type] =>  Payment
            [tofrom] =>  From
            [nameemail] =>  John Smith
            [date] =>  May 9, 2005
            [status] =>  Completed
            [amount] => $1,000.00 USD 
            [fee] => -$29.30 USD 
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [type] =>  Payment
            [tofrom] =>  From
            [nameemail] =>  Joe Everyman
            [date] =>  May 4, 2005
            [status] =>  Completed
            [amount] => $5.00 USD 
            [fee] => -$0.45 USD 
        )
)

If you have a Paypal account that stores multiple currencies at the same time, then the regular GetBalance() won't work for you. Instead, you should use

	$balances = $p->GetMultipleBalances();

This returns an array of the pair [amount, currency name], so that the array structure looks like


Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => 533.40
            [1] => USD
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => 0.20
            [1] => EUR
        )
)