By antonello on

Guys,

I developed a large open-source project and I designed the site using Drupal (a solution that I really love). I planned to add a "donation" page to it for accepting donations from users.
I found two modules on the Drupal CVS that could be suitable: paypal_framework and paypal_tipjar. What I found, unfortunately, is that both the projects have been discontinued and they can be run only from Drupal 4.6 (I tried running them under 4.7, but I got many errors).

Is there any plan to restart the implementation of these projects? If not, is there any other module for accomplish to this task?

Thanks for the attention.
Antonello

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bradlis7’s picture

bradlis7 commented

I think it would be easy to just use paypal's manual, and create your own drupal page with a paypal donation button. You could even do it in a block.

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antonello’s picture

antonello commented

I haven't checked out the PayPal manual yet, but what I wanted to do was another thing: the PayPal module was perfect for taking track of all the donators and list theme to a page in the site (as I saw on other open-source projects sites).
Another goal of the task was to give support to the donators (no matter how much they donate) on the project.

gobblez’s picture

gobblez commented

if you mean something like an automated reply, check out paypal's IPN. I'm still looking into it myself, but basically, when the transaction is complete, it sends the script of your choice (you set it on paypals site) a little ping with the data you need to know, you ping back, then paypal pings you one more time to confirm the payment was successful. Now that you know user so and so paid, you can do whatever. I'm thinking of using this method for a pay section of my client's site.

ghoti’s picture

ghoti commented

IPN is part of the toolset that paypal_framework provides. If you're thinking of writing this, consider using the code that exists in paypal_framework as your starting point. Your best bet is probably to update paypal_framework to work with 4.7, along with paypal_tipjar. If the modules ever worked at all (and they do), it should be a fairly easy migration.

grcm’s picture

grcm commented

For a simple Paypal button- just go to the Paypal site and follow the instructions on how to make a simple button. It's really very easy indeed.

Using IPN is more complex, but I found it easier to just whip up a simple PHP page myself without getting involved in the full Drupal codeset.

Bear in mind you could quite easily just update the "thanks to" page by hand if the volume is low- there's no point in automating it (several hours work at least) unless you expect a large volume.

If you do, these links about Paypal and IPN may well help.

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