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I am getting ready to integrate the TrustCommerce payment gateway into CiviCRM.  This is my first attempt at open-source distributed software development, so please excuse the newbie questions.

The TrustCommerce gateway communicates via a shared object module (usually called "tclink.so") that must be compiled on the box on which it will execute.  The preferable option is to have the web hosting company copy include .so file as one of the modules globally accessible by PHP.  In the event that the web hosting company will not allow this, you can load the module temporarily when you make the call for the CC payment.  For this option, it would be important to have some field(s) on the payment processor configuration screen to specify the location of the .so file.  I am willing to make these changes, but how do I connect with the correct person to make changes to this part of CiviCRM?

Okay, I have hacked up the Authorize.Net code and I have TrustCommerce returning successful authorizations in test mode.  To do this, I created three files from their Authorize.Net equivalents:

CRM/Core/Payment/TrustCommerce.php
CRM/Contribute/Payment/TrustCommerce.php
CRM/Event/Payment/TrustCommerce.php

In the Core object I modified the constructor and doDirectPayment methods.  I have a new _getTrustCommerceFields from modified from it's Authorize.Net equivalent. 

TrustCommerce does offer a recurring payment, but it's an extra charge for the functionality.  I have not implemented that since I cannot test it.  My client has not elected to pay for that service.

I also discovered that you can load the tclink.so module via a custom php.ini in PHP4 and PHP5, so I may not need the path specification in the payment processor configuration page.

I know that I have a ton of code cleanup to do, but what kind of integration testing, documentation, and check-in do I need to complete to get this to a point where other people can review it?