In this, the third episode of PHP Cloud Development Casts, we go through how to integrate Stripe Webhooks in to our PHP applications. We extend the PHP Kohana application we created in episode 2 and show how simple it is to create a webhook and to receive the information and store it in a MySQL database.

Through the use of Stripe's webhooks, you can have a transaction call back to your application on a specified URL and perform further actions. In his example, he shows how to make the request, handling the "payment success" event. He includes all of the code (controller, view, etc) that you'll need to plug into Kohana to make it all work.

In this, the second episode of PHP Cloud Development Casts, we go through how to creating charges with the Stripe.com libraries. We use a simple Kohana based PHP setup to create a token and an accompanying charge. We then login to our account and look at the details that Stripe stores about the transaction from tokens, charges, events and other logged data.

You can view the video either on their site or by heading to Vimeo for a bit larger version. He shows how to use Stripe's own Javascript and PHP scripts to connect to the API. He does it as a part of a Kohana-based application, but it can be easily adapted to any framework (or non-framework) site out there.

Until recently, accepting credit cards on a website was expensive and complicated. But that was before Stripe: a radically different and insanely awesome credit card processing company. Today, I'll show you how to start accepting cards in 30 minutes or less - without spending a dime.

They step you through the whole process you'll need to get the full flow set up:

• Install an SSL Certificate (on your server)
• Create an Account
• Create Your Payment Form
• Collect The Form Values
• Request a Token
• Create a Server-Side Script

Screenshots of the Stripe interface, HTML, Javascript and PHP code are all included - everything you need to make the simple card handling work. One of the keys to how Stripe deals with credit cards is that you provide it the card info, it gives you a token. Your app uses this to work with the card instead of storing the card information in your database (also making it more secure).