Development:Enrolment plugins

Testing paypal using the paypal developer sandbox

(for moodle 1.4 - 1.6) If you follow these steps, you can test paypal payments using the paypal developer sandbox instead of the real paypal site. No money is actually charged to any account. All other actions are the same as if you were using the real paypal site.

• create a paypal developer account at https://developer.paypal.com/cgi-bin/devscr?cmd=_home
• change the address being used to send data to paypal to use the sandbox. in enrol/paypal/enrol.html:
  • change the form post action to be https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr instead of https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
• change the address that is used to check the acknowledgment from paypal. in enrol/paypal/ipn.php, change:
  • $fp = fsockopen ('www.paypal.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
• to
  • $fp = fsockopen ('www.sandbox.paypal.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
• create a couple of user accounts in the paypal sandbox and test enrolling in a course that requires payment (note that you need to be logged into the paypal sandbox while doing this testing)

See also

• Enrolment plugins (administrator)
• Using Moodle Enrolment Plugins forum