PHP : Paypal API test script #php

paypal-api-test-script.md

// Replace with your actual PayPal API credentials
$api_username = "";
$api_password = "";
$api_signature = "";

// PayPal API endpoint (sandbox or live)
$api_endpoint = "https://api-3t.paypal.com/nvp"; // Live endpoint
// For sandbox testing: $api_endpoint = "https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp";

// Prepare API request parameters
$params = array(
    'USER' => $api_username,
    'PWD' => $api_password,
    'SIGNATURE' => $api_signature,
    'METHOD' => 'GetBalance', // You can change this to test other methods
    'VERSION' => '204.0',
);

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_endpoint);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute cURL request
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for cURL errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo "cURL Error: " . curl_error($ch);
    exit;
}

// Close cURL session
curl_close($ch);

// Parse response
parse_str($response, $responseArray);

// Check API response
if ($responseArray['ACK'] == 'Success') {
    echo "API call successful!\n";
    echo "Response:\n";
    print_r($responseArray);
} else {
    echo "API call failed!\n";
    echo "Error message: " . $responseArray['L_LONGMESSAGE0'] . "\n";
}