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Hello Ladies and Gents, I need help with this. I have a Stripe Webhook that posts to a route within my app. This is assigned to a controller, at the moment I am just trying to log what I get to confirm I am getting the right information before I submit to my DB, my goal is to take this information and create a user so I'd like to get $request->name, $request->email, etc. But those return null, the current code on my controller functions returns Array to string conversion error. Any help on how to navigate through the json to get the data I need? Also I see Cashier already pulled in the Stripe class, is there a way to use functions from that class? Do have I have to use include(Stripe....) or is there a provider and facade for it? Thank you in advance Controller:
public function newcustomer(Request $request){
$created = $request->created;
$customer = $request->only('customer');
Log::info('Webhook : '.$created . ' and ' . $customer);
}
I did dd($request) and was able to get the following json response :
#parameters: array:9 [
"created" => 1326853478
"livemode" => false
"id" => "evt_00000000000000"
"type" => "charge.succeeded"
"object" => "event"
"request" => null
"pending_webhooks" => 1
"api_version" => "2016-06-15"
"data" => array:1 [
"object" => array:30 [
"id" => "ch_00000000000000"
"object" => "charge"
"amount" => 50000
"amount_refunded" => 0
"application_fee" => null
"balance_transaction" => "txn_00000000000000"
"captured" => true
"created" => 1466540290
"currency" => "usd"
"customer" => "cus_00000000000000"
"description" => "Become a Partner"
"destination" => null
"dispute" => null
"failure_code" => null
"failure_message" => null
"fraud_details" => []
"invoice" => null
"livemode" => false
"metadata" => []
"order" => null
"paid" => true
"receipt_email" => "[email protected]"
"receipt_number" => null
"refunded" => false
"refunds" => array:5 [
"object" => "list"
"data" => []
"has_more" => false
"total_count" => 0
"url" => "/v1/charges/ch_18OvK2KR0gYurAdXmFHe0wij/refunds"
]
"shipping" => null
"source" => array:22 [
"id" => "card_00000000000000"
"object" => "card"
"address_city" => "Fort Lauderdale"
"address_country" => "United States"
"address_line1" => "123 Boca St"
"address_line1_check" => "pass"
"address_line2" => null
"address_state" => "FL"
"address_zip" => "33321"
"address_zip_check" => "pass"
"brand" => "Visa"
"country" => "US"
"customer" => "cus_00000000000000"
"cvc_check" => "pass"
"dynamic_last4" => null
"exp_month" => 12
"exp_year" => 2016
"funding" => "credit"
"last4" => "4242"
"metadata" => []
"name" => "Henry"
"tokenization_method" => null
]
"source_transfer" => null
"statement_descriptor" => null
"status" => "succeeded"
]
]
]
}
In your user model you should be storing the stripe id that is generated when you add the user to stripe, then you should query your users like so when a web hook is received:
$user = App\User::where('stripe_id', $request['data']['object']['customer'])->first();
The webhook is being triggered from another website, so when they first pay they are not interacting with this app yet. The client submits a form on another website, this form gets processed by Stripe and the Stripe webhook sends me a post with the information after processing credit card. So I need the webhook information to create the User. Is that request drilling down and getting the customer number ?
So my issue was navigating through Json, turns out you can just do $request->input('data.object.sources.data'); to navigate inside array within the json.
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