PHP Error: "Must supply amount_money"

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I’m using the guide over at Take Online Payments with Square APIs in 3 Steps | Square

Everything is installed; I installed the Square SDK using Composer, made sure I’m using the latest version of PHP, and am using sandbox credentials.

I have a simple form that successfully gets a idempotencyKey, but when I try to process the payment at my “process-payment.php” file, I constantly keep getting the following error:

[
{
“category”: “INVALID_REQUEST_ERROR”,
“code”: “MISSING_REQUIRED_PARAMETER”,
“detail”: “Must supply amount_money”,
“field”: “amount_money”
}
]

I’m using the Money class to create the object, am using setAmount() and setCurrency(Currency:CAD), and no php errors - just the errors from square’s side. Looking at the error, it reqires an “amount_money” field, but looking at the docs over at square-php-sdk/create-payment-request.md at master · square/square-php-sdk · GitHub , it looks like this is actually called “amountMoney”.

The PHP I’m using is:

$money = new Money;
$money->setAmount(floatval($total)*100);
$money->setCurrency(Currency::CAD);
$create_payment_request = new CreatePaymentRequest($token, $idempotencyKey, $money);

Is this an error on Square’s side? I can provide some basic code if needed, but I pulled it all from the Github repo and the Square site.

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Figured out the issue. The CreatePaymentRequest’s 3rd parameter doesn’t work, but some of the documentation and examples use it so this was creating confusion.

I fixed it with the following:

$money = new Money;
$money->setAmount(floatval($total)*100);
$money->setCurrency(Currency::CAD);
$create_payment_request = new CreatePaymentRequest($token, $idempotencyKey);
$create_payment_request->setAmountMoney($money);

Works like a charm now!

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Thank you for providing the solution. It helped me!

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This also solved my problem. Thank you! Weird that the docs have it wrong.