This is what i managed to do.
I went with the custom form approach. I had a form template to capture both customer and card inputs in billing.template.html like so:
<form method="POST" id="payment-form">
<span class="payment-errors"></span>
<div>
<label>Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" data-stripe="name">
</div>
<div>
<label>Email</label>
<input type="text" name="email" data-stripe="address_email">
</div>
<div>
<label>Address Line 1</label>
<input type="text" name="street" data-stripe="address_line1">
</div>
<div>
<label>Postcode</label>
<input type="text" name="postcode" data-stripe="address_zip">
</div>
<div>
<label for="country">Country</label>
<select ng-include="'../templates/_partials/_countrylist.html'"
id="countries" name="country" class="form-control"
name="country" ng-model="country" id="country" size="2"
data-stripe="address_country" required></select>
</div>
<div class="form-row">
<label>
<span>Card Number</span>
<input type="text" name="cardNumber" size="20" data-stripe="number"/>
</label>
</div>
<div class="form-row">
<label>
<span>CVC</span>
<input type="text" name="cvc" size="4" data-stripe="cvc"/>
</label>
</div>
<div class="form-row">
<label>
<span>Expiration (MM/YYYY)</span>
<input type="text" name="expMonth" size="2" data-stripe="exp-month"/>
</label>
<span> / </span>
<input type="text" name="expYear" size="4" data-stripe="exp-year"/>
</div>
<button id="customButton">Pay with Card</button>
</form>
I know we are not supposed to use name attribute in those form inputs but i left them so i could use angular validation, but i remove them using jquery before submitting to server.
Now i created a controller to handle the form: BillingController.js. In there i had an "on click" handler which kick started things by getting a hold of the form and doing some preparatory work: disabling button to prevent further clicks and removing those 'dreaded' name attributes, comme ca:
$('#customButton').on('click',function(event) {
var $form = $('#payment-form');
// Disable the submit button to prevent repeated clicks
$form.find('button').prop('disabled', true);
//NOW REMOVE THOSE NAME ATTRIBUTES
$form.find('input').removeAttr('name');
// call Stripe object and send form data to get back the token.
// NOTE first argument is $form
Stripe.card.createToken($form, stripeResponseHandler);
// Prevent the form from submitting with the default action
return false;
});
Now let me quote the documentation here as this is very important to understand: https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/forms
The important code to notice is the call to Stripe.card.createToken.
The first argument is the form element containing credit card data
entered by the user. The relevant values are fetched from their
associated inputs using the data-stripe attribute specified in the
form.
Next we create stripeResponseHandler(). Remember it was the second argument in Stripe.card.createToken($form, stripeResponseHandler); above which gets called when Stripe returns the token.
function stripeResponseHandler(status, response) {
var $form = $('#payment-form');
if (response.error) {
// Show the errors on the form
$form.find('.payment-errors').text(response.error.message);
$form.find('button').prop('disabled', false);
} else {
// response contains id and card, which contains additional card details
var token = response.id;
// Insert the token into the form so it gets submitted to the server
$form.append($('<input type="hidden" name="stripeToken" />').val(token));
// and submit
$form.get(0).submit();
}
};
This is copy and paste stuff from stripe's own documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/forms. Now, I want to say that, this is where a lot of us were tripping over the fact that form was performing a redirect etc. - notice final line $form.get(0).submit(); . Thats what caused the auto submit, redirecting to what ever action was on form, if u had any (in my case action attribute wasn't necessary as i was doing redirects in my controller).
So i decided to remove $form.get(0).submit() and implemented my own redirect after i was done sending data to the server.
NOTE: Stripe's response will have included data from the $form - try console.log(response); to have an idea of what's being posted back.
FINALLY:
We check if there were any errors returned and if so display them. Otherwise its all good, send data to the server.
The final code looks like:
function stripeResponseHandler(status, response) {
var $form = $('payment-form');
if (response.error) {
// Show the errors on the form
$form.find('.payment-errors').text(response.error.message);
} else {
// response contains id and card, which contains additional card details
var token = response.id;
// prepare data
var data = {
stripeToken: token,
fullName: response.card.name,
street: response.card.address_line1,
postcode: response.card.address_zip,
town: response.card.address_city,
country: response.card.address_country,
last4: response.card.last4
};
// send to server
$http.post('/checkout', data).then(function(result){
// here you can redirect yourself.
window.location.href = "/#/order-complete";
});
}
};
Angular really playing well with stripe here. Check out this link also: https://gist.github.com/boucher/1750368 - learn a lot from it.
I hope it helps someone today. Happy coding!
