Braintree PHP Example

An example Braintree integration for PHP. In this project I added a new simple page to get payment-method-nonce key, which is just generated, not used, for API testing purpose

Demo link

https://colin-braintree-php-nonce.herokuapp.com/

Create your own Braintree App

Setup Instructions

1. Install composer within the example directory. You can find instructions on how to install composer on composer's site.

2. Run composer:

composer install

3. Copy the contents of example.env into a new file named .env and fill in your Braintree API credentials. Credentials can be found by navigating to Account > My User > View Authorizations in the Braintree Control Panel. Full instructions can be found on our support site.

4. Start the internal PHP server on port 3000:

php -S localhost:8888 -t public_html

Then on your localhost:8888 you will have this

5. Enter a sandbox braintree creditcard, ex: 4111 1111 1111 1111 and expired date in future, ex: 02/20, the page will redirect you to a new page to have Braintree payment_method_nonce. Please note that the nonce can be used only once.

Like in this image

6. In case you want to demonstrate how transaction success, not to get payment method nonce, please look at the file public_html/index.php and change this line

<form method="post" id="payment-form" action="/get_nonce.php">

to this

<form method="post" id="payment-form" action="/checkout.php">

Then after entering card detail, you will see the transaction detail, like in this image

Braintree

1. First, you need to understand how Braintree works, what is client token, what is payment method nonce, and how it works on this url https://developers.braintreepayments.com/start/overview

2. You will need to register a Braintree sandbox account via https://www.braintreepayments.com/sandbox

3. You will need to gain your Braintree API credentials, including public_key, private_key, merchant_id. These credentials are needed for your .env file, or somewhere in your config/env/configs.php in a my current Laravel project

4. If your API configure different Merchant Account ID for different Currency, you will need access to your Braintree sandbox Settings (most top left navigation option) and then Processing. In this page you will see a place to setup new Merchant Account ID. Please make sure that the Merchant Account Id is correct to what you have on sandbox if you set it to Braintree\Transaction::sale

Good luck