Easy Questions & Thank You!

[Thank.You]

Hi Ben,

Thank you for making form tools.
I'm learning a lot from your tutorials, and promise to donate when I can.

1) Is the older step-by-step Paypal form tutorial still valid for FT2, or have the major changes made the older tutorial out-dated?

2) Is calling a hook very similar to calling a function?
(FYI: I'm not looking for a time-consuming response, just a basic building-block of knowledge)

Thank you very much.

[Ben]

Hey,

No problem! Hope the script comes in handy.

1) Is the older step-by-step Paypal form tutorial still valid for FT2, or have the major changes made the older tutorial out-dated?

Yes, it's outdated. The process is pretty much the same, but the original code submit + callback needs to be updated to use the API functions rather than the "code" submission type, used by Form Tools 1.

2) Is calling a hook very similar to calling a function?

Not really. It works by you creating your own PHP function (e.g. say_hello()), then you assign your function to a hook. Then, when the Core code containing that hook gets executed, it also processes your function.

Hope this is semi-clear...!

- Ben

[Thank.You]

^^^
Yes, very good explanation, and thanks for sharing your time, also.



edit: Found a small typo on your page here:
http://services.formtools.org/
"ustomizing Form Tools as a CRM"

[Ben]

Thanks! Fixed.

[sebgonz]

Will we be seeing an update to this tutorial any time soon? I'm not really familiar with the API, so I don't know what I need to place where. Know what I mean?

[Ben]

Yeah, I totally know what you mean. How about I shoot for getting it written this week? I don't think too much needs to be updated, so hopefully it won't take too long!

- Ben

[sebgonz]

Cool! That would work great.

[Ben]

Ack. Thanks for the reminder.

Okay, this weekend I'll shoot for getting both the PHP validation and PayPal Integration tutorials written.

Man, I USED to have more spare time... what on earth happened to it all?!

- Ben

[Ben]

Sorry - only managed to get the PHP validation tutorial completed, but I'm about halfway through the PayPal one. I'll post here when it's done.

- Ben

[airmale]

Never mind, I found the PayPal tut — tried to delete this post but got an error.