topic Re: AIM PHP CURL ERROR (13) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive. in Integration and Testing

AIM PHP CURL ERROR (13) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive.

SurferJoe — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:32:07 GMT

I'm just starting to test and am getting the error: (13) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive.

I am using a live account and have put it in test mode. If I put the same varriables into a html form everything works fine however if post them via php using curl I get the error. The example I'm using below is pretty straight forward but maybe I've overlooked something that someone can spot. Perhaps I have to actually activate the account in some way I've missed, is this possible? Any help would be greatly apprecated. Again I am not using the developer account but the live account in test mode.

Thanks,

Joe

<?php

$data = array(
'x_login' => 'omitted',
'x_tran_key' => 'omitted',
'x_type' => 'CAPTURE_ONLY',
'x_amount' => '27.00',
'x_card_num' => '4007000000027',
'x_exp_date' => '04-15'
);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;

Re: AIM PHP CURL ERROR (13) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive.

RaynorC1emen7 — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:22:37 GMT

From Sample Code

your $data is $post_values in the sample code

$post_string = "";
foreach( $post_values as $key => $value )
    { $post_string .= "$key=" . urlencode( $value ) . "&"; }
$post_string = rtrim( $post_string, "& " );

curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);

From http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

Passing an array to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will encode the data as multipart/form-data, while passing a URL-encoded string will encode the data as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

Re: AIM PHP CURL ERROR (13) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive.

SurferJoe — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:36:45 GMT

Thanks!!!

I new I had overlooked something.