Chapter 5. CCVS Functions

CCVS is Red Hat's credit card verification system, enabling financial transactions to be processed by your programs. This is not free software; you need to buy it from Red Hat and have it installed and working on your system before you can use the PHP API for it. A demo download is available for testing only.

The CCVS home page is at www.redhat.com/products/software/ecommerce/ccvs/.

Once you have the software installed and working, to enable it in PHP you must pass the --with-ccvs=[DIR ] option (where DIR is the base CCVS installation directory) to the configure script and rebuild PHP. The extension may also be available as a loadable module, meaning that you don't need to rebuild PHP, but can simply load the extension using the dl() function or via the PHP initialization file.

Also note that your PHP and ccvsd processes must be running as the same user. You may want to have a separate httpd running on a special port as the CCVS user.