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Who know what software will create a paypal donation form?

by Donald Truehart
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Hey Warriors,

I asked this in the main forum and then it hit
me that this would be a more appropriate place.

Anyway, I'm doing a site for a non profit and I've been
searching and searching and I can find a
piece of software that to creates a long detailed
paypal donation form like the one on this site:

http://www.pittsburghfoundation.org/...onlineform.cfm

Sure it can be designed in dreamwiever but I'm looking
for some sort of script or something that can do it.

There's all kind of form creating softwares but none
that I've found that is integrated with paypal to create
a form like the one on that site.

I actually did find one or two apps that did create them,
but they each cost like a few grand a piece and I've also found
a few sites that will let you create them on their site, but you
have to host them there and pay a monthly fee.

I'm not interested in either of those options.

I'm simply looking for a stand-alone piece of software that
will allow me to build/design the form and host it on my site and that
has a backend so that the records can be accessed and set-up
to be emailed to whatever email addresses we choose.

If someone can point me in the right direction to a reasonably priced
piece of software I'm even willing to pay a $10 bounty for just a little research if necessary.

This is urgent, so any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Donald
#create #donation #form #paypal #software
  • Profile picture of the author Richard Whyte
    Hey Donald

    The link you give as an example is dead in the water. So, we can't see exactly what you are looking for.

    have a Great Day!
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  • Profile picture of the author Nick M
    I think the page you meant was paypal_giveonlineform.cfm.

    This form posts to pre-processing page on the same site (PayPal_DonationRelocator.cfm). I would guess that the first page collects the data and the second page captures the data in their database and then redirects to PayPal, passing only the donation amount across.

    The paypal button on the page does not link directly to PayPal, instead it posts to the pre-processing page.

    To build something like this yourself is relatively simple.

    1. Build a form in DreamWeaver that posts to your "Processing Page"
    2. Assuming you're using PHP, create a processing page something like:

    Code:
     
<?
 
 
// Write your code to insert form POST data into the database
 
 
 
$email = "your paypal email";
$amount = (donation amount from your POST variables);
$description = "Donation Description";
 
//---- NOTE Remove the spacings in the link below (I had to add them because I do not have enough posts to allow links yet!)
 
$url = "https://w ww.paypal. com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=" . $email . "&lc=US&item_name=" . $description . "&amount=" . $amount . "&currency_code=USD&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest";
 
header location($url);
 
?>
    3. If you wanted to, you could then use PayPal's IPN or return variables to validate that they followed through on the donation.
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  • Profile picture of the author kittyd
    i have Joomla & I use RSForms to generate forms, and it has its own Paypal plugin so it is easy to do it.

    I don`t know if your site uses a CMS, but if it runs on wp or joomla, rs from exists for both. i believe one single licence is 19euro, not that much...
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