PayPal SOAP and NVP

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Waheed picture Waheed · Oct 5, 2009 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

I am new to PayPal and i want to know which is batter way to implement PayPal, SOAP or NVP API.

And what is the major difference between these two???

Answer

donut picture donut · Apr 12, 2010

I would recommend using the NVP (Name-value pair, basically POST with data) API over the SOAP API. NVP should be significantly lighter weight than SOAP. There are a few questions already on SO that complain about SOAP. I just was trying to figure out which to use and came upon those. Hope that helps.

Also, here's how PayPal describes the NVP API:

The PayPal Name-Value Pair API (NVP API) enables you to leverage the functionality of the PayPal API by simply sending an HTTP request to PayPal and specifying request parameters using name-value pairs. The NVP API is a lightweight alternative to the PayPal SOAP API and provides access to the same set of functionality as the SOAP API.

Emphasis my own.

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